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Originally Posted by pwalker8
There is a very famous story about Issac Asimov where Asimov attended a lecture on one of his stories. After listening to the professor for a while, he finally had enough, stood up and said "no that's not what I was trying to say". The professor replied "What do you know? You only wrote it."
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There is a similar story about a Dutch writer, Godfried Bomans. He commented on a educational print of one of his books (Erik en het Klein Insectenboek) where at the end of each chapter there were questions about the chapter. He was asked about the book and he said he thought it was great, because 'now I finally know what I meant with it'. Needless to say, most people missed the sarcasm.