Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
7469
AUTHOR:
Edna St Vincent Millay
QUOTATION:
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down…. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
ATTRIBUTION:
Quoted in Alan Ross Macdougall ed Letters of Edna St Vincent Millay Harper & Row 52
SUBJECTS:
Communications & the Arts: Literature: Observers & Critics
