Fun and profits no excuse for misuse of famous names

MO YAN, THE CHINESE WRITER who won Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012, recently posted on his micro blog account that some chicken-soup-for-the-soul quotes widely spread under his name were not by him. Thepaper.cn comments:

"I cherish those who point out my errors and help me correct them," a micro-blogger wrote on Oct 24, attributing it to Mo. Yet two days later, Mo publicly answered it: "Good quote! But I am also curious to know who wrote it."

That is only one of the hundreds of quotes falsely attributed to him. Search "Mo Yan" in the domestic search engine baidu.com, and you get all kinds of "Mo Yan's 10 best quotes" or "The favorite sentences of Mo Yan".