Strunk And White Quotes

#1. If you see it in Strunk and White it's so.

Buffy Andrews

#2. And that's not all," she went on. "He's typing his memoirs. A man who can't scribble down a grocery list without consulting Strunk and White suddenly thinks he's an ex-president." They

Harlan Coben

#3. Strunk and White don't speculate as to why so many writers are attracted to passive verbs, but I'm willing to; I think timid writers like them for the same reason timid lovers like passive partners. The passive voice is safe.

Stephen King

#4. Pullum has special vitriol for Elements of Style, which he calls "E. B. White's disgusting and hypocritical revision of William Strunk's little hodgepodge of bad grammar advice and stylistic banalities" or

Robert Lane Greene

#5. Anybody that wants to disarm me can drop dead.

Ted Nugent

#6. We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.

Marcel Proust

#7. History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.

Malcolm X

#8. It's just you and me against the world, Pidge.

Jamie McGuire

#9. Vigorous writing is concise.

Strunk Jr., William

#10. The sole problem was the terrible unawareness.

Edmund S. Phelps

#11. In his New Yorker column of July 27, 1957, E. B. White praised the "little book" as a "forty-three-page summation of the case for cleanliness, accuracy, and brevity in the use of English.

William Strunk Jr.

#12. Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.

William Strunk Jr.

#13. This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice.

Jim Walsh

#14. Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.

Jon Krakauer