E. B. White Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.

  E. B. White

  Reading, Mind, Produce

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.171, 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

• All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

  E. B. White

  Reading, Feelings, Experience

  1939 Quo Vadimus?, 'How To Tell A Major Poet From A Minor Poet'.

• As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the impregnator, and the reader, who is the resspondent. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.

  E. B. White

  Communication, Reading, Two

• The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the reader, and if he's going to the trouble of reading what I've written -- I'm a slow reader myself and I guess most people are -- why, the least I can do is make it as easy as possible for him to find out what I'm trying to say, trying to get at. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.

  E. B. White

  Reading, Writing, People

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