Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.

Elwyn Brooks White

Paris Review Interview - 1969. Interview with George Plimpton and Frank Crowther, Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, series eight - Viking Penguin - 1988.

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When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the...

Elwyn Brooks White

Paris Review Interview - 1969. Interview with George Plimpton and Frank Crowther, Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, series eight - Viking Penguin - 1988.

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Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.

Elwyn Brooks White

Paris Review Interview - 1969. Interview with George Plimpton and Frank Crowther, Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, series eight - Viking Penguin - 1988.

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Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth. They accept, almost without question, anything you present...

Elwyn Brooks White

Paris Review Interview - 1969. Interview with George Plimpton and Frank Crowther, Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, series eight - Viking Penguin - 1988.

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New York is part of the natural world. I love the city, I love the country, and for the same reasons. The city is part of the country. When I had an apartment on East Forty-Eighth Street, my backyard...

Elwyn Brooks White

Paris Review Interview - 1969. Interview with George Plimpton and Frank Crowther, Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, series eight - Viking Penguin - 1988.

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In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me...

Elwyn Brooks White

Paris Review Interview - 1969. Interview with George Plimpton and Frank Crowther, Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, series eight - Viking Penguin - 1988.

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Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half asleep. I think of those five years in Maine as the time when this happened to me ... I was suddenly...

Elwyn Brooks White

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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.

Elwyn Brooks White

Intimations - 1941.

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The future, wave or no wave, seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

Elwyn Brooks White

A review of The Wave of the Future by Anne Morrow Lindbergh in Harpers Magazine - December 1940.

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

Elwyn Brooks White

Fro-Joy - 1940.

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