Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

I don't want nobody to ever say, 'I coulda done that beat' or 'I know where you got that from.'

The last thing you want to do as a creator is take something of someone else's when you love him.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.

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

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

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

When it comes to other people's writing, my older influences are more powerful than more recent ones, partially because I'm now more worried that I'll suddenly accidentally steal something from another writer.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Never steal jokes.

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

I know that charges of plagiarism are serious.

Inspiration is one thing. Stealing is another.

Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.