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> [“Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one. Start sniffing the air, or glancing at the Trend Machine, and you are as good as dead,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-2/your-whole-duty-as-a-writer-is-to-please-and-satisfy-yourself-and-the/)

[E.B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-2/)

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## More by E.B. White

> [“In the loveliest town of all where the houses were white and high and the elm trees were green and higher than the houses…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-2/in-the-loveliest-town-of-all-where-the-houses-were-white-and-high-and/)

[E.B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-2/)

> [“He was sad because his new friend was so bloodthirsty.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-2/he-was-sad-because-his-new-friend-was-so-bloodthirsty/)

[E.B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-2/)

> [“On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy. It is this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-2/on-any-person-who-desires-such-queer-prizes-new-york-will-bestow-the/)

[E.B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-2/)

> [“But the city makes up for its hazards and its deficiencies by supplying its citizens with massive doses of a supplementary vitamin-the sense of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-2/but-the-city-makes-up-for-its-hazards-and-its-deficiencies-by/)

[E.B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-2/)

> [“Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-2/third-there-is-the-new-york-of-the-person-who-was-born-somewhere-else/)

[E.B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-2/)

> [“A library is many things. It’s a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It’s a place to go if you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-2/a-library-is-many-things-it-s-a-place-to-go-to-get-in-out-of-the-rain-2/)

[E.B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-2/)

> [“Most people believe almost anything they see in print.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-2/most-people-believe-almost-anything-they-see-in-print/)

[E.B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-2/)

> [“Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-2/remember-that-writing-is-translation-and-the-opus-to-be-translated-is/)

[E.B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-2/)

> [“Just the minute another person is drawn into some one's life, there begin to arise undreamed-of complexities, and from such a simple beginning as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-2/just-the-minute-another-person-is-drawn-into-some-one-s-life-there/)

[E.B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-2/)

> [“Your essays spoke of beauty, of love, of light and darkness, of joy and sorrow, and of the goodness of life. They were wonderful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-2/your-essays-spoke-of-beauty-of-love-of-light-and-darkness-of-joy-and/)

[E.B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-2/)

> [“I remember a day in class when he leaned forward, in his characteristic pose - the pose of a man about to impart a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-2/i-remember-a-day-in-class-when-he-leaned-forward-in-his/)

[E.B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-2/)

> [“Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-2/explaining-a-joke-is-like-dissecting-a-frog-you-understand-it-better/)

[E.B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-2/)

> [“Analyzing humor is like disecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-2/analyzing-humor-is-like-disecting-a-frog-few-people-are-interested/)

[E.B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-2/)

> [ “So I told \[the doctor\] about my hay fever, which used to rage just in summertime but now simmers the year round, and he… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-2/so-i-told-the-doctor-about-my-hay-fever-which-used-to-rage-just-in/)

[E.B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-2/)

> [“You have been my friend," replied Charlotte, "That in itself is a tremendous thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-2/you-have-been-my-friend-replied-charlotte-that-in-itself-is-a/)

[E.B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-2/)

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