| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
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| 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 |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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