Quote

Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

E. B. White

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

E. B. White
Age: 86 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 11
Died: 1985
Died: October 1
Editor
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Mount Vernon
New York
Elwyn Brooks White
E.B. White
Writers
Advice
Write
Young
Without
Delays
Writing
Delay
Men
Annoying
Ahead

More quotes by E. B. White

Image
A writer should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
E. B. White
Image
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E. B. White
Image
If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.
E. B. White
Image
Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.
E. B. White
Image
It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.
E. B. White
Image
New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!
E. B. White
Image
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
E. B. White
Image
All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
E. B. White
Image
Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
E. B. White
Image
A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day.
E. B. White
Image
From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
E. B. White
Image
In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.
E. B. White
Image
In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living.
E. B. White
Image
I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else
E. B. White
Image
A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered
E. B. White
Image
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White
Image
new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.
E. B. White
Image
There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed.
E. B. White
Image
The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
E. B. White
Image
I don't understand it, and I don't like what I don't understand.
E. B. White