Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.... Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words and they backhand them across the net.

Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to have consequential thoughts is to start putting them down.