Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
6856
AUTHOR:
C S Forester
QUOTATION:
My distaste for my own work lingers on surprisingly. A father looking down at his first-born for the first time may experience a sense of shock, but he generally recovers from it rapidly enough; after a day or two he thinks it is a very wonderful baby indeed. My life would be happier if I reacted in the same way toward my books.
ATTRIBUTION:
The Hornblower Companion Little, Brown 64
SUBJECTS:
Communications & the Arts: Literature: Writers & Editors
