Mary Abigail Dodge Quote

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.


Country Living and Country Thinking, Preface, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


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...

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...

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...

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...