E. B. White Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Heart, Errors

• The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.

  E. B. White

  Beautiful, Summer, Sadness

• I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it. To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Firsts, Flight

• In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.

  E. B. White

  Country, Design, Attention

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.139, Cornell University Press

• The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

  E. B. White

  Play, Audience Of One, Duty

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

• In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.

  E. B. White

  Country, Attention, Pay

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.139, Cornell University Press

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