Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

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

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

When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.

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

While I am not a journalist, I have, myself, written more than one thing that has been plagiarized in the past.

plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.

'Would I mind if someone wrote a sequel to one of my books?' I asked myself, and I decided that I wouldn't, providing that the writer was respectful, had read my book first, and wasn't drunk when doing 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.

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

Nothing in the television show 'True Detective' was plagiarized.

Self-plagiarism is style.

Be wary of cutting and pasting research nuggets directly into your manuscript.

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.

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

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.

Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!

PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.

And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.

I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and go to jail.

Sometimes a line enters your head, and you're so grateful for it. You go online to check to see if anyone wrote it before you. You must have stolen it.