Famous quotes containing the words elwyn brooks and/or brooks:
“A writer is like a bean plant—he has his little day, and then he gets stringy.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)
“What do you think of us in fuzzy endeavor, you whose directions are sterling, whose lunge is straight?
Can you make a reason, how can you pardon us who memorize the rules and never score?”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)