Letters of E.B. White Quotes

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”
― E. B. White, Letters of E. B. White

“He carried a pencil that put a camera to shame.”
― E.B. White, Letters of E.B. White

“I remember what it is like to be in love before any of love’s complexities or realities or disturbances has entered in, to dilute its splendor and challenge its perfection.”
― E.B. White, Letters of E.B. White

“Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.”
― E.B. White, Letters of E.B. White

“A book is a sneeze.”
― E.B. White, Letters of E.B. White

“I'm recovering from a nervous crack-up which visited me last summer and which has given me a merry chase. I never realized nerves were so odd, but they are. They are the oddest part of the body, no exception. Doctors weren't much help, but I found that old phonograph records are miraculous. If you ever bust up from nerves, take frequent shower baths, drink dry sherry in small amounts, spend most of your time with hand tools at a bench, and play old records till there is no wax left in the grooves.”
― E.B. White, Letters of E.B. White

“I find the natural world as engaging and as innocent as it ever was. When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed, and I have no complaints.”
― E.B. White, Letters of E. B. White, Revised Edition