Letter to his brother Jeff, from Hawaii (7 April 1941); p. 11
To Reach Eternity (1989)
“Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all of the tricks and has nothing to say.”
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“Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write”
Source: Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

Letter to Shirley Wiley (30 March 1954), in The Letters of E. B. White (1989), p. 391
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 13, Bits & Pieces, p. 136.

The Rome Press Conference (23 July 2001)

The Day the Universe Changed (1985)
Source: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 5 “2001” (pp. 243-244; "ascetism" should be "asceticism")

in p. 173.
Sources, The Yoga Darsana Of Patanjali With The Sankhya Pravacana Commentary Of Vyasa