Tag: François-René de Chateaubriand

The original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. – François-René de Chateaubriand, Le génie du Christianisme (1802)  People like to rag on Shakespeare for re-using the plots of other people for almost every play he wrote. They also like to claim J.K. Rowling stole all her good ideas from Tolkien (I…