Famous quotes containing the words elwyn brooks and/or brooks:
“A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist—nothing shields him from the world’s gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)
“Abortions will not let you forget.
You remember the children you got that you did not get,”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)