Anyone else get annoyed when they see a quote attributed to an author when it's from one of their books and not a thing they said?
That is a line from one of their books not a quote from the author.
Whether positive or negative, whether you agree with it or not, whether they agree with it or not...they didn't say that, they wrote a character saying that.
Shakespeare didn't say 'To be or not to be', Hamlet did yet if you look up quotes from the bard himself you get nothing but lines from his plays.
No one seems to have actual quotes.
But you can find some stuff from Poe, if you like, such as 'I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.'
Which is from a letter he wrote and so an actual quote.
I just...it bothers me. It bothers me so much. If not for all the people decrying any dark topics because it must mean the author is some sort of evil sadist...we have this shit.
It's not helping.