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Originally Posted by Graham
I would assume that he had written a book.
It's possible that he mainly wrote short stories, or worked in some other medium such as blogging, but my base assumption would be that he had written at least one book.
That doesn't mean to say that someone who specialises in short stories or does some serious blogging isn't also an author.
But note, there is absolutely no recognition of a base level of quality in this assumption.
Graham
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Assuming that because someone is an author that a whole host of other things must be true - making a living from writing, writing good book that are widely read, etc - is to make a Towel Fallacy. Here's the relevant passage from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: nonhitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost." What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
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