Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

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

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.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Damn those who have made my remarks before me!

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it..

I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare.

Too afraid of plagiarising someone, so I stopped reading fiction in 1981.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Self-plagiarism is style.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

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

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Copyright rewards originality, not effort.

Creativity in copyright law only means that you didn’t copy it from someone else …. Most works that are protected under copyright are not creative in the colloquial sense of the word.

If you can't plagiarise yourself, who can you plagiarise?

A major focus of 'Reality Hunger' is appropriation and plagiarism and what these terms mean. I can hardly treat the topic deeply without engaging in it. That would be like writing a book about lying and not being permitted to lie in it.

There's a difference between hiring writers and stealing jokes.

I firmly believe in copyrights and am put off by plagiarism.

Why don't people just open... my works instead of accusing me?