Fede Alvarez Quotes

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

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

All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

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

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

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me.

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

Blake is damned good to steal from.

Everyone steals from something or someone.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

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

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?