Elwyn Brooks White

Elwyn Brooks White (1899 - 1985), popularly known as E B White in short, was a US writer. He is best known as the author of children's books which included "Stuart Little" (1945), "Charlotte's Web" (1952), and "The Trumpet of the Swan" (1970). He was also a writer and contributing editor to The New Yorker magazine, and also a co-author of the English language style guide titled "The Elements of Style".

Wisdom & Quotes

• Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

- One Man's Meat

• Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

- Control in One Man's Meat

• I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television.

- Removal in One Man's Meat

• The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

- One Man's Meat

• It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

- Charlotte's Web

• Never hurry and never worry!

- Charlotte's Web

• It's broccoli dear.

I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.
- cartoon caption, The New Yorker, December 12, 1928

Noel Coward