In message 47320DC1.31D51E4E.4BF51BCE@netscape.net, jacquispeel@netscape.net writes
There is a story about a certain author (perhaps Isaac Asimov, of himself) going to a lecture in which one of his stories is discussed and given an interpretation he did not mean. At the end he goes and protests and is told 'you are only the author.'
Asimov. The story was in his autobiography, although I can't remember which volume.