Who of us has not read an E.B White novel? There can’t be many of us that is for sure, his children’s books Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little have to be two of the best known novels of that genre with Charlotte’s Web regularly cited as being the top children’s novel of all time.
Charlotte made me cry in school and was a defining literary moment for me; I still remember that moment of realisation that actually reading wasn’t all about Peter and Jane and Pat the dog, reading was about friendships, and magic and life and death. Reading was a doorway into other worlds and they were worlds that I wanted to be a part of.
With so many to choose from, these 10 wonderful E.B White quotes we have replicated in this blog are just the tip of the very deep and profound literary iceberg that is author Elwyn Brooks White.
“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.”
“One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.”
“The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.”
“Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.”
“The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.”
“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.”
“Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.”
“You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
“We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.”
“After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die.”
These are musings of the wonderful E.B White; born on the 11th of July 1899 he is the author of eighteen books and we have included links to his bibliographies below.
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