Meetings bore me. Author: E.B. White Copy Quote More from E.B. White “Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.” “So I told [the doctor] about my hay fever, which used to rage just in summertim…” “A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, an…” “As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping…”