Reading Quote by William Zinsser

The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B. White occupied…

— Paul Di Filippo

I have always felt a special affinity with V. S. Pritchett. He worked from the ear, primarily, as I do, and he was an…

— Kevin Barry

“Nobody hits it right more of the time than E. B. White: "All writing is both a mask and an unveiling.”

— Jeri Parker

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors…

— Jesmyn Ward

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American…

— Ishmael Reed

I read like everybody - like every other writer.

— Nat Hentoff

In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many writing heroes,…

— Red Smith

When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white classmates never…

— Jenny Zhang

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

— Samuel Butler

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

— Susie Bright

I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one reads.

— Derek Walcott

If I could visit dead authors, I'd head right over to E. B. White, though I'm so in awe of him I'd probably just…

— Elizabeth Berg