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Writing is both mask and unveiling. - E.B. White

Writing is both mask and unveiling. – E.B. White

Other quotes by E.B. White

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer…. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. – E.B. White

Category:
Poetry
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E.B. White
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New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village — the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up! – E.B. White

Category:
Places
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E.B. White
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Writing
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. – Sylvia Plath

Category:
Writing

There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes. – William Makepeace Thackeray

Category:
Writing

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. – Samuel Butler

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Writing

Be obscure clearly. – E.B. White

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Writing

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