: Re: Can I have a character make a quote from a real life figure? Can I have a fantasy character make a quote from a real life figure? For example, can I have a villain make a statement spoken

Can I have a fantasy character make a quote from a real life figure?

Leaving aside the legal aspect of it, why in a (secondary) world would you want to do that?

Joe Abercrombie often pre-pends his book parts with quotes from real-life politicians and philosophers (even the titles of The First Law trilogy are partial quotes from Homer, Heine, and Louis XIV). I do enjoy his stories, but I feel extremely uncomfortable every time I see the direct quotations with the proper attribution to their authors, for they immediately kick me out of the world he is building.

So, couldn't you just write something else?

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