Quotes by E. B. White

About E. B. White:

Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White is commonly known as "Strunk & White". He also wrote books for children, including Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). Charlotte's Web was voted the top children's novel in a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, an accomplishment repeated in earlier surveys.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

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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.

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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

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Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

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To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

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

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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

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The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

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Author Bio

  • NameE. B. White
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornJuly 11, 1899
  • DiedOctober 1, 1985
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet; Writer; Journalist; Novelist