Which Speaks, Book Or Author?

On January 20th (2014), I posted on “The Tao Of Writing: ‘The Book That Can be Spoken Of Is Not The Book’.”

The post was an update on writing progress for Daughter Of Blood, The Wall Of Night Book Three, but in it I wrote, amongst other things, that:

“…the quote in the title…derives from Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching. I have paraphrased the opening line, which (in my edition) reads:

“The Way that can be spoken of is not the Way.”

One interpretation of this is that the Tao or Way that can be spoken of or...