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E. B. White on writing for children (1969) This is it. https://t.co/a1Kj9TwfJN
"Write in a way that comes naturally," "Revise and rewrite," "Do not explain too much," and the rest; above all, the cleansing, clarion "Be clear."
William Strunk JR. and E.B. White • The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
— Gustave Flaubert
— Gustave Flaubert
Dylano | Essayful • Tweet
a good story, by definition, has to be smarter than the person who wrote it. Because if it’s less smart, that means the writer wasn’t writing a story but assembling a piece of Ikea furniture. Most of the masterpieces I’ve encountered were smarter than their creators, and often more decent and purely good than them, too.
Etgar Keret • So you think you can tell?
the role of the writer is “to lift people up, not lower them down”
E.B. White
you likely know his classic children’s books on animals going rogue ( Stuart Little , Charlotte’s Web ).
E.B. White • Here is New York (1949)
E. B. White makes the case cogently in The Elements of Style, a book every writer should read once a year, when he suggests trying to rearrange any phrase that has survived for a century