David Herbert Lawrence

half a loaf is better than no bread

The present book is a continuation from "Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious." The generality of readers had better just leave it alone. The generality of critics likewise. I really don't want to convince anybody. It is quite in opposition to my whole nature. I don't intend my books for the generality of readers. I count it a mistake of our mistaken democracy, that every man who can read print is allowed to believe that he can read all that is printed. I count it a misfortune that serious books are exposed in the public market, like slaves exposed naked for sale. But there we are, since we live in an age of mistaken democracy, we must go through with it.
I warn the generality of readers, that this present book will seem to them only a rather more revolting mass of wordy nonsense than the last. I would warn the generality of

his pas­sion, all his wild blood, went into this in­ter­course with her, when he talked and con­ceived his work. She brought forth to him his ima­gin­a­tions. She did not un­der­stand, any more than a wo­man un­der­stands when she con­ceives a child in her womb. But this was life for her and for him.