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General Legal Questions/Writing Rules 2016-10-18 05:59:37 Post No. 8631490
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I have a legal/rule of writing question, but I didn't want to make a whole thread just for one question, so if anyone else has questions, let's use this thread and try and help each other out.
Ok, here's my question:
I know it is legal to use quotes from other books (such as using a quote at the beginning of a chapter), as long as you name the original author of said quote, but is it legal to alter a quote by taking out a certain part of the quotes sentence?
So let me use a quote from Donnie Darko as an example.
“A storm is coming, Frank says.
A storm that will swallow the children.
And I will deliver them from the kingdom of pain.
I will deliver the children back to their doorsteps,
And send the monsters back to the underground.
I'll send them back to the place where no-one else can see them.
Except for me.”
-Donnie Darko
Now, if I wanted to take a part of that first sentence out-this part: 'Frank says', Can I legally do this? And if so, how can I do it in order to show the audience that the quote has been altered slightly from the original?
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Parenthesis.
I'm pretty sure this quote didn't feature in Donnie Darko, either.
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>>8631537
Donnie: [reading poem in class] "'A storm is coming,' Frank says. 'A storm that will swallow the children. And I will deliver them from the kingdom of Bane. I'll deliver the children back to their doorsteps. I'll send the monsters back to the underground. I'll send them back to a place where no one else can see them except for me, 'cause I am Donnie Darko.'"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/quotes
Thank you for the input though.
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>>8631557
I stand corrected. Perhaps I should be glad I'm detached enough from my edgy teenagehood not to remember Donnie Darko verbatim.
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>>8631650
Lol. I just watched it recently because it was on a Halloween movie list.
I've seen better, but it wasn't horrible.
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You're not seriously planning on quoting Donnie Darko for anything serious, right?
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https://depts.washington.edu/engl/askbetty/changing_quotations.php
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>>8633200
Damn that's really helpful, thank you so much.
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>>8633224
Oh OK, will do for future stuff. I thought it better fit over here because this is the literature board, but now that I'm looking in the catalogue, maybe I should have asked in the critique thread first.
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I am attempting to write poems. I read some poetry here and there, but I've never written. I am dating a qt that writes poems and I am mesmerized by her poetry.
How important is it to learn how to write in meter? I really like non-rhyming meter and writing constrains in general.
Also, what are some tips for an absolute novice. I wrote one earlier today and it was pathetic.
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>>8634726
free verse poetry almost always is nothing more than words written in a column unless its author already can write in meter
it's pretty much like with avant-garde art, those who can't draw classically probably can't make a decent unorthodox picture either
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>>8634726
Free verse is not free of verse.
Read John Hollander's Rhyme's Reason. Its like 80 pages and has everything you need to know to start.
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