Quote

I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.

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
Wouldn
Else
Stills
Still
Encouraged

More quotes by E. B. White

Image
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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
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
If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.
E. B. White
Image
Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.
E. B. White
Image
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White
Image
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
E. B. White
Image
Writing is both mask and unveiling.
E. B. White
Image
By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
E. B. White
Image
When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.
E. B. White
Image
When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we have seen.' I cherish the remembrance of the beauty I have seen. I cherish the grave, compulsive word.
E. B. White
Image
The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.
E. B. White
Image
I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it. To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit.
E. B. White
Image
Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it.
E. B. White
Image
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
E. B. White
Image
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
E. B. White
Image
Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. White
Image
Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.
E. B. White