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Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing. — Nora Roberts

You stole my story and something's got to be done about it. — Stephen King

Steal from one man, it's plagiarism. Steal from a thousand men, it's research. — Quentin Reynolds

If you copy from one author, it's plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it's research. — Wilson Mizner

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. — Steven Wright

Plagiarism is basic to all culture — Pete Seeger

Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born. — Robert K. Merton

The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism. — Dorothy Parker

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions. — Anthony Horowitz

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal. — Charles Stross

When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music. — Jay Kay

The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves? — Anthony Marais

Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home. — Zelda Fitzgerald

Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research. — Walter Moers

To some extent the history of plagiarism is a history of notebooks. — Thomas Mallon

Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism. — Red Skelton

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching. — Charles Spurgeon

The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals ... is the plagiarism of ourselves. — Marcel Proust

In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition. — Andrew Mason

I get a lot of big ideas, and occasionally I actually come up with one myself. — Bauvard

Using a big word like 'plagiarism' ... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism. — Michel Houellebecq

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism. — Pedro Almodovar

A little of this, a little of that - a little of me, a little of you - put it together what do you have? postmodern soup ... — John Geddes

There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism
self-denial. — G.K. Chesterton

All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech. — Jacob Braude

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism. — Gilbert Gottfried

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. — Paul Gaugin

Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service. — Michel De Montaigne

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs. — Criss Jami

Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man's sleep. — Fennel Hudson

It's not plagiarism in the digital age
it's repurposing. — Kenneth Goldsmith

Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do. — Robert Genn

Plagiarism is not only wrong, it's spelled funny, okay. — Pepe The King Prawn

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. — Howard Dietz

what is originality ? undetected plagiarism! — William Ralph Inge

People who copy you will always be one step behind. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. — Anatole France

Existing is plagiarism. — Emile M. Cioran

Plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence. — Ambrose Bierce

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism. — George A. Moore

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons! — Henry Ward Beecher

Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research. — John McPhee

All wisdom is plagiarism; only stupidiy is original. — Hugh Kerr

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism. — William Ralph Inge

Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others. — Charlotte Saunders Cushman

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research. — Wilson Mizner

The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Originality is undetected plagiarism. — William Ralph Inge

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation — Benjamin Disraeli

All artists are protected by copyright ... and we should be the first to respect copyright. — Billy Cannon

I recover my property wherever I find it. — Moliere

The writer Wilson Mizner said if you copy from one author, it's plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it's research. I — Austin Kleon

People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after — Oliver Goldsmith

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood. — Clint Eastwood

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. — Charles Caleb Colton

Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry. — Pat Conroy

Most authors steal their works, or buy. — Alexander Pope

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature? — Benjamin West

I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle. — Molly Ivins

Plagiarism is the fear of a blank page. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Borrowed garments never keep one warm. — James Russell Lowell

The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment. — T.D. Jakes

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism. — Mary McCarthy

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times. — Karl Kraus

If you seal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. (Mizner) — Brian O'Hare

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. — Jimi Hendrix

Self-plagiarism is style. — Alfred Hitchcock

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. — Charles Kuralt

Art is either revolution or plagiarism — Paul Gauguin

Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it — Guy Debord