• The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.

    Hugh MacDiarmid: The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.
    1928 Review of D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in The New Age, 27 Sep. This may very well have been the first published review of Lawrence's novel.