E. B. White Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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.

  E. B. White

  Book, Happy Times, People

• A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. 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.

  E. B. White

  Inspiring, Encouragement, Book

• Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a riot. Some day, if I ever get a chance, I shall write a book, or warning, on the character and temperament of the Dachshund and why he can't be trained and shouldn't be. I would rather train a striped zebra to balance an Indian club than induce a Dachshund to heed my slightest command. When I address Fred I never have to raise either my voice or my hopes. He even disobeys me when I instruct him in something he wants to do.

  E. B. White

  Dog, Zebras, Book

• All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

  E. B. White

  Inspiring, Book, Writing

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.76, Cornell University Press

• Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.

  E. B. White

  Book, Reading, Men

• A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered

  E. B. White

  Book, Library, May

• Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.

  E. B. White

  Book, Childhood, Adults

• A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the information is in the reference books---the dictionaries, the encyclopedias, the atlases. If you like to be told a story, the library is the place to go.

  E. B. White

  Rain, Book, Thinking

• In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living.

  E. B. White

  Book, Writing, Order

  "Writers at Work". Interview with George Plimpton, Frank Crowther in Paris Review, 1969.

• Books are the door of escape from the forest.

  E. B. White

  Book, Doors, Forests

• A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books... Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had.

  E. B. White

  Book, Men, People

• Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his life, and this is mine. It is not the best book I ever encountered, perhaps, but it is for me the handiest, and I keep it about me in much the same way one carries a handkerchief - for relief in moments of defluxion or despair.

  E. B. White

  Book, Men, Thinking

  "In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers".

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