Plagiarism Quotes
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Plagiarism Quotes & Sayings
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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
If you copy from one author, it's plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it's research.
— Wilson Mizner
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
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
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
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
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
It's not plagiarism in the digital age it's repurposing. — Kenneth Goldsmith
Plagiarism is not only wrong, it's spelled funny, okay.
— Pepe The King Prawn
what is originality ? undetected plagiarism!
— William Ralph Inge
People who copy you will always be one step behind.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
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
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
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
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
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 relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.
— Mary McCarthy
If you seal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. (Mizner)
— Brian O'Hare
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