A Quote by William Goldman
If you're going to abridge a book in the author's own words, you can't go sticking your own in.
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To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.
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I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.
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Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?
People would much rather argue their own visions and conceptions about a book than engage in a dialogue with the author, because the author could always trump you with, 'I wrote it.'
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