Matthew Gregory Lewis Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: July 9, 1775 - May 14, 1818
Birthday: July 9
Death: May 14
An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.
source: Matthew Gregory Lewis (1832). “The Monk ... Printed Verbatim from the First London Edition”, p.178
topic: Book, Writing, Animal, Privileged
