Italo CalvinoIt's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.
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We all like to think we know authors and their personalities based on what they write. Our view of them is formed by the books we read, and they are most often not the people we’d expect them to be. We might even find out that the person they present themselves as is not even close to who they really are.
Source: If On A Winters Night A Traveler
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