Do famous sayings/quotes written in my book have to be in the bibliography?
Posted by admin on May 11, 2008 in Books Authors |
James Christopher asked:
I may repeat things in my book that have been said by others before. I may not know if something I’m going to write about may have been said before by someone else. My book will be unique to my life. I may want to write sayings/quotes in my book that have inspired me at a certain point in my life.
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I may repeat things in my book that have been said by others before. I may not know if something I’m going to write about may have been said before by someone else. My book will be unique to my life. I may want to write sayings/quotes in my book that have inspired me at a certain point in my life.
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No, you can just say, so in so once said, ‘a bird can’t fly if it’s got no wings.’
and then if you found that quote in abook or magazine, then you have to site it.
Those sayings / quotes would be embedded into the text of your book and not in a bibliography unless you use only part of the saying / quote that the reader may want to reference both in context .
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yes. you’ll get in deep doggy doo doo if you don’t.
None of us know if what we’re going to write or say has been written or said before, unless we SEE it or HEAR it… and I’m so sorry to be cyber-yelling, I just have no way to put anything in italics.
In other words, (words I’ve often both seen and heard but have no idea who said or wrote in other words for the first time, so I haven’t got a chance of making a citation for it)…
In other words, you write in your own voice. If it’s a time-honored saying (another in other words moment here), then everyone knows it’s part of the way we speak now.
But if you have read/heard something in a book/movie/song you want to quote, you must put in a citation for it, mentioning book and author and page number… these in parentheses if it’s a short quote. [For movies and songs, it may be a bit different... hmm.]
If it’s a long quote, I suggest you look up ‘citations’ in wikipedia and there you’ll find lots of help. Or ask a reference librarian to help you when things seem just too confusing…
Good luck–
Technically you have to attribute quotes to their source, but a bibilography is only required on scholarly works. A simple reference:
As Mark Twain once said…
is good enough.