In the Words of E. B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Wri

<p>"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a world war."--E. B. White on fatherhood</p><p>"I was lucky to be born abnormal. It ran in the family."--on luck</p><p>"I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else." --on Maine</p><p>"The English language is always sticking a foot out to trip a man."--on language</p><p><br>The author of <i>Charlotte's Web</i> and <i>One Man's Meat</i>, coauthor of <i>The Elements of Style</i>, and columnist for <i>The New Yorker</i> for almost half a century, E. B. White (1899-1985) is an American literary icon. Over the course of his career, White inspired generations of writers and readers with his essays (both serious and humorous), children's literature, and stylistic guidance.</p><p><i>In the Words of E. B. White</i> offers readers a delightful selection of quotations, selected and annotated by his granddaughter and literary executor, Martha White. The quotations cover a wide range of subjects and situations, from Automobiles, Babies, Bees, City Life, and College to Spiders, Taxes, Weather, Work, and Worry. E. B. White comments on writing for children, how to tell a major poet from a minor one, and what to do when one becomes hopelessly mired in a sentence. White was apt to address the subject of security by speaking first about a Ferris wheel at the local county fair, or the subject of democracy from the perspective of roofing his barn and looking out across the bay--he had a gift for bringing the abs