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- From: norbeck@castor.cs.bucknell.edu (nancy norbeck `93)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Help with Quoted Material
- Message-ID: <1649@hydra.bucknell.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 13:04:56 GMT
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- Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.
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- I have a question dealing with quoted material:
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- I'm working on a book (still mostly in the idea stage) but there
- is a quote I'd like to use by having a character say it. I am
- presently trying to find out who said it in the first place (if I
- can't find out I won't use it) but I'd like to know how to attribute
- it. Is it enough to just have the character say "As so-and-so said"
- (or something similar to that), or is there some other way I need to
- document it. And do I need to get permission from a publisher or
- author in order to use it?
-
- Along the same lines, there are some songs that have given me a lot
- of inspiration for this story and would make very good quotes as
- well. I would probably have the character be listening to the radio
- or a CD or something, but I'm not sure which member of the band in
- question wrote the lyrics, and I'm not sure how to find out. And, as
- above, I'm not sure what I have to do to use them properly.(I'm not
- going to pepper the whole thing with quotes, mind you. Just one or two.)
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- I won't use anything I can't attribute properly, as much out of my own
- sense of morality as of the legality of it. I'd appreciate any
- info you could give me.
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- Thanks in advance!
-
- Nancy
-
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- |Nancy Norbeck | "I know that look." "What look?" "The look that says |
- |....................| you're going to be impetuous, vengeful, irresponsible,|
- |norbeck@bucknell.edu| and *stupid*!" --Lady Jane and Lovejoy, "Death and |
- |....................| Venice" |
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