Quotes About Plagiarism

Really we create nothing. We merely plagiarize nature.

Good writers borrow, great writers steal, Jake was thinking.

I read Wolfe's new book _ The Story of a Novel_ and as usual he stole the whole damn thing from me. I am going to write and say will you please stop writing books you bastard.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

There was a time when not many people had access to Malayalam films. So those who did have access went on to copy the films, add a few bits, and present it like it was their own.

Ant & Dec have always nicked stuff off us. We met their writers, they said they just trawl our stuff and adapt it. The problem is they're a lot bigger than us, so people think we're copying them.

From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at will, and it wasn't seen as a bad thing.

This radio business I'm in is full of guys who read the sports page and rip crap off.

Newfangled online sites like 'Business Insider' and 'Huffington Post' built businesses they later sold for hundreds of millions of dollars by ripping off the work of more talented journalists and then playing Google's digitally native games better than the old fogeys ever could.

What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off.

It would be revealed years later that the language had been lifted almost verbatim from an ad that had appeared in the New York Times and other papers over the names of isolationist congressmen, written and paid for by Nazi agents.

Study's overrated. Just find someone smart to copy off. -Adrian to Lissa

I see the creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing..and you will find all manner of dishonor. Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly.

I see a creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing, Monsieur Boustouler, and you will find all manner of dishonor. Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly.

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and, also, scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald (I believe that is how he spells his name) seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

Nous ne devons pas sentir mal parce que quelqu'un vole nos idées. ça arrive. Nous, à la place, devrions nous sentir mauvais qu'ils ne disposaient pas tout de leur propre pour commencer. - Deo

Nous ne devons pas sentir mal parce que quelqu'un vole nos idées. ça arrive. Nous, à la place, devrions nous sentir mauvais qu'ils ne disposaient pas tout de leur propre pour commencer. Merci beaucoup. - Deo

We mustn't feel bad because someone steals our ideas. It happens. Instead, we should feel bad that they didn't have any of their own to begin with.

If you're really ahead of the game, plagiarism is a trap you want your competitors to fall into!

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.

When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it.

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

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