Writing Quote by E.B. White Download Open image ““[Writers] should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.”” — E.B. White ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.” — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“Good writing is made up of characters who are bigger than their circumstances.” — Michael Knight Copy Share Image
“Those who pull you down are inferior to those who lift you up.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation. ” — Patrick Dennis Copy Share Image
“Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
“But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without something buoying them up.” — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“In the loveliest town of all where the houses were white and high and the elm trees were green and higher than the houses… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
“On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy. It is this… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
“But the city makes up for its hazards and its deficiencies by supplying its citizens with massive doses of a supplementary vitamin-the sense of… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
“Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
“A library is many things. It’s a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It’s a place to go if you… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
“Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.” — E.B. White Copy Share Image
“Just the minute another person is drawn into some one's life, there begin to arise undreamed-of complexities, and from such a simple beginning as… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
“Your essays spoke of beauty, of love, of light and darkness, of joy and sorrow, and of the goodness of life. They were wonderful… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
“I remember a day in class when he leaned forward, in his characteristic pose - the pose of a man about to impart a… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
“Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.” — E.B. White Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image