Quotes by White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense o >>

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or cou >>

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze. >>

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs sw >>

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; >>

In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.

White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)