Each Tuesday morning, he would close his study door and sit down to write the "Notes and Comment" page for The New Yorker. The task was familiar to him -he was required to file a few hundred words of editorial or personal commentary on some topic in or out of the news that week- but the sounds of his typewriter from his room came in hesitant bursts, with long silences in between.
- Roger Angell on his stepfather, E. B. White, from the forward to the fourth edition of The Elements of Style.