Quote of the Day (E.B. White, on Gearing Up to Write)

“When I start to write, my mind is apt to race, like a clock from which the pendulum has been removed.” —Essayist and children's book author E.B. White (1899-1985), “The Art of the Essay No. 1” (interview by George Plimpton and Frank H. Crowther), The Paris Review, Fall 1969