Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

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.

A writer is like a bean plant – he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

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

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

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

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

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Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.

Stony Skunk, when they were with our company, had a song which I personally like called 'Red Light District.'

We're fabricating a state-of-the-art concessions system for our touring, so we can feed the people and give them everything they need without having to wait on it.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors – between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic – and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.

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