E. B. White

Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it. To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit.

Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it.

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.

You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.

Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

To achieve style, begin by affecting none.

Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.