E. B. White Messages

Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.

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

The best writing is rewriting.

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

I am always humbled by the infinite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.

To achieve style, begin by affecting none.

Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.

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

Loneliness is a strange gift.