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Image first taken by Jill Krementz when E.B. White was 77 years old

“White has everything he needs: a writing implement, a piece of paper, and a receptacle for all the sentences that didn’t come out the way he wanted them to.”

—William Zinsser

William Zinsser in 2013. Credit: Damon Winter/The New York Times

“I don’t know what still newer marvels will make writing twice as easy in the next 30 years. But I do know they won’t make writing twice as good. That will still require plain old hard thinking—what E.B. White was doing in his boathouse—and the plain old tools of the English language.”
—William Zinsser

i indite.

“White has everything he needs: a writing implement, a piece of paper, and a receptacle for all the sentences that didn’t come out the way he wanted them to.”

—William Zinsser

“I don’t know what still newer marvels will make writing twice as easy in the next 30 years. But I do know they won’t make writing twice as good. That will still require plain old hard thinking—what E.B. White was doing in his boathouse—and the plain old tools of the English language.”

—William Zinsser

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