E. B. White Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Admiration, Admire

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.209, Cornell University Press

• Writing is both mask and unveiling.

  E. B. White

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

• Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a riot. Some day, if I ever get a chance, I shall write a book, or warning, on the character and temperament of the Dachshund and why he can't be trained and shouldn't be. I would rather train a striped zebra to balance an Indian club than induce a Dachshund to heed my slightest command. When I address Fred I never have to raise either my voice or my hopes. He even disobeys me when I instruct him in something he wants to do.

  E. B. White

  Dog, Zebras, Book

• All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

  E. B. White

  Inspiring, Book, Writing

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.76, Cornell University Press

• Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays

  E. B. White

  Writing, Self, Stamina

• Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

  E. B. White

  Inspiring, Faith, Writing

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

• There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Track, Scary

• Write about it by day and dream about it by night.

  E. B. White

  Dream, Writing, Positivity

• Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Exercise, Journey

• Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Shapes

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.218, Cornell University Press

• A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Heart, Errors

• Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.... Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words and they backhand them across the net.

  E. B. White

  Children, Writing, Games

• No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

  E. B. White

  Attitude, Writing, Reader

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

• Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Past, Life Is Like

• There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will be able to write clearly, no key that unlocks the door, no inflexible rules by which the young writer may steer his course. He will often find himself steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.

  E. B. White

  Stars, Writing, Thinking

  William Strunk, Jr., E. B. White (1972). “The Elements of Style”

• Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

  E. B. White

  Hard Work, Writing, Hard

• The best writing is rewriting.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Learning, Rewriting

• As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though I might be held personally responsible if even a small one were to be lost.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Men, Might

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.23, Cornell University Press

• Use the smallest word that does the job.

  E. B. White

  Jobs, Writing, Doe

• The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  E. B. White (2014). “Essays of E. B. White”, p.4, Harper Collins

• Don't write about Man; write about a man.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Men, Young Writers

  E. B. WHITE (1954). “The SECOND TREE from the CORNER”

• 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

  Writing, Men, Advice

  E. B. WHITE (1954). “The SECOND TREE from the CORNER”

• An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Editors, Desire

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

• All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

  E. B. White

  Communication, Writing, Escaping

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

• When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Adversity, Men

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