Writing funny pieces is a legitimate form of activity, but the durable humor in literature, I suspect, is not the contrived humor of a comedian commenting on the news but the sly and almost imperceptible ingredient that sometimes gets into writing. I think of Jane Austen, a deeply humorous woman. I think of Thoreau, a man of some humor along with his bile.
E.B. White in Writers at Work, Eighth Series, edited by George Plimpton, 1988
E.B. White in Writers at Work, Eighth Series, edited by George Plimpton, 1988
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