A writer should cultivate only what naturally absorbs his fancy, whether it be freedom or cinch bugs, and should write in the way that comes easy.

E. B. White (1899-1985) American author, critic, humorist [Elwyn Brooks White]

Essay (1939-01), “One Man’s Meat,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 178
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When collected in his book, One Man's Meat (1944), the essay was renamed "Salt Water Farm." Sometimes the excerpted third section of the essay is referred to as "The Duty of Writers."