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Plagiarize, plagiarize, / Let no man's work evade your eyes, / Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, / Don't shade your eyes, / But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize. / Only be sure to call it research.
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.
Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
To some extent the history of plagiarism is a history of notebooks.
All wisdom is plagiarism; only stupidiy is original.
Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man's sleep.
Copying is the highest form of flattery
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.
Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.
Art is either revolution or plagiarism
Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.
Good writers borrow. The best writers steal.
Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.
Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence.
It's the ultimate identity theft when you start messing with somebody's work. Thinking that you could edit the work, or mix it differently, or re-EQ it, or make claims about it that aren't true.
If you copy from one author, it's plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it's research.
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.
In literature imitations do not imitate.
Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.
It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation.
All writers steal. You might as well steal from the best.
Based on my own experiences, I made sure, and I'm proud of this, that the Common Core curriculum is hard on plagiarizers.
The writer Wilson Mizner said if you copy from one author, it's plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it's research. I
Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.
The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.
Don't copy, get inspired
Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
I think that when you pay tribute and are citing, not only through naming the authors but also through the acknowledgement of the form, that you are in no way plagiarizing.
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but theft is a sin.
Whatever, I copied all through school, and look how well I'm doing today.
I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.
To copy is to invite disaster.
Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?
Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
In presidential campaign I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college, also. If I were plagiarizing consistently, my grades would have been better.
The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said, "i did it", without any confidence and prove.
In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists
No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.
Real people conceive originality then think, write but never read of others' posts to copy to follow and the copycats follow exactly the opposite direction i.e. read of others' posts, write but never think and conceive originality.
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
If you seal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. (Mizner)
You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.
That part of a work of one author found in another is not of itself piracy, or sufficient to support an action; a man may adopt part of the work of another; he may so make use of another's labors for the promotion of science and the benefit of the public.
If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!
Imitation is flattery
There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.
Copying isn't particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else's idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.
When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.
Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.
If you plagiarize others' techniques, you steal their emotions and tell your spectators a lie with your work. Works as such equal zero.
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
I think if you steal well, you're a genius. If you copy badly, you're a hack.
Don't imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal.
Creativity means not copying.
Good poets borrow, great poets steal
Good designers copy; great designers steal.
Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?
He who can copy can do.
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal,
To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.
I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.
All history is nothing but wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other.
Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.
A good imitation is the most perfect originality
Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.
You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.
Writing is to copyediting what swimming is to pool maintenance.
Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.
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.
All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.
Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.
Story is about originality, not duplication
Writing is rewriting.
You must understand the feeling of originating as opposed to imitating.
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
If you copy then it is not self-expression.
Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Being original is beautiful. Copying someone is just being a fool
They say if somebody has done something you want to do, all you need to do is go out and copy them.Copy-- Chael Sonnen
I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.
People can copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you still want to do.
If you just mimic the surface of somebody's work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more than a knockoff.
We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.