Equal Rites (Discworld, #3)

by Terry Pratchett

she was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you.

Wizards seemed to think that names were the same as things, and that if you changed the name, you changed the thing. At least, it seemed to be something like that . . .

A link to one of my favorite books: The Name Of The Wind (Kingkiller Chronocles: Book 1)