E.B. White, One Man's Meat

"There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on."

E.B. White, One Man's Meat

"There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception."

E.B. White, One Man's Meat

"When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure."

E.B. White, One Man's Meat