"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a
world war." E. B. White on fatherhood
"I was lucky to be born abnormal. It ran in the family." on
luck
"I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere
else." on Maine
"The English language is always sticking a foot out to trip a
man." on language
The author of Charlotte's Web and One Man's Meat, coauthor of
The Elements of Style, and columnist for The New Yorker for almost
half a century, E. B. White (1899 1985) is an American literary
icon. Over the course of his career, White inspired generations of
writers and readers with his essays (both serious and humorous),
children's literature, and stylistic guidance.
In the Words of E. B. White offers readers a delightful
selection of quotations, selected and annotated by his
granddaughter and literary executor, Martha White. The quotations
cover a wide range of subjects and situations, from Automobiles,
Babies, Bees, City Life, and College to Spiders, Taxes, Weather,
Work, and Worry. E. B. White comments on writing for children, how
to tell a major poet from a minor one, and what to do when one
becomes hopelessly mired in a sentence. White was apt to address
the subject of security by speaking first about a Ferris wheel at
the local county fair, or the subject of democracy from the
perspective of roofing his barn and looking out across the bay he
had a gift for bringing the abstract firmly into the realm of the
everyday. Included here are gems from White's books and essay
collections, as well as bits from both published and unpublished
letters and journals.
This is a book for readers and writers, for those who know E. B.
White from his "Notes and Comment" column in The New Yorker, have
turned to The Elements of Style for help in crafting a polished
sentence, or have loved a spider's assessment of Wilbur as "Some
Pig." This distillation of the wit, style, and humanity of one of
America's most distinguished essayists of the twentieth century
will be a welcome addition to any reader's bookshelf."
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