If only I had declared this kind of ownership over all those crappy papers I wrote during my first 2 years of school…

“In 1812, the year Charles Dickens was born, there were 66 novels published in Britain.  People had been writing novels for a century—most critics date the genre to Robinson Crusoe in 1719—but nobody aspired to do it professionally.  Many works of fiction appeared anonymously, with attributions like “By a Lady.” 

From ‘Charles in Charge’ by Radhika Jones