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)
“All my days
I’ll have as mentors those reproving ghosts.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)