“Mr. White: If you get that story done, I’ll take steps to get you a new cushion for your chair.”
source: note written to E. B. White, encouraging him to finish an essay, and quoted in “A Note to Our Readers,” The New Yorker, October 4, 2010, 40.
category: cushion, deadline, E. B. White, incentive, story, work, writing
medium: letter
deadline