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.

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.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

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

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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

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

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

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

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

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I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.

I study my fans all the time, and what I learn from them will definitely be reflected in my future work.

I think that we get so distracted with our smartphones… It takes your body and your brain time to switch between tasks. If we can focus on what we're doing, we'll be more productive at that task.

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