Quote#Books & Reading
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public…
Quote byMary Abigail Dodge · 1833–1896
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Country Living and Country Thinking (1862), Preface, p. iii..
English (original)
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.
— Mary Abigail Dodge
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