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by Charles Reade
PREFACE

It has lately objected to me, in studiously courteous of course, that I borrow other books, and am a plagiarist. To this I reply that I borrow facts from every source, and am not a . The plagiarist is one who from a homogeneous work: for such a man borrows ideas only, but their treatment. He who borrows only from heterogeneous works is not a plagiarist. All fiction, worth a button, is founded facts; and it does not matter one straw the facts are taken from personal , hearsay, or printed ; only those books must not be works of fiction.
Ask your sense why a man writes fiction at forty than he can twenty. It is simply because he has more facts from each of these three ,--experience, hearsay, print.
To those who have science enough to the above distinction, I am very willing to admit that in all my I use a vast deal of heterogeneous material, which in a of study I have gathered from men, journals, blue-books, histories, biographies, law reports, etc. And if I could, I would gladly specify the various printed sources to which I am . But my memory is not equal to a feat. I can only say that I rarely write a without milking about two hundred heterogeneous cows into pail, and that "A Simpleton" is no exception to my method; that method is the true , and the best, and if on that method I do not write novels, it is the fault of the man, and of the method.
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