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Quotes from Paris Review interview — E. B. White

1899–1985 United States

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Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time.

Paris Review interview (1969)

I was deeply impressed by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. It may well be the book by which the human race will stand or fall.

Paris Review interview (1969)

I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.

Paris Review interview (1969)

Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.

Paris Review interview (1969)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: E. B. White (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.