George Carlin Quotes

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.

I just got on Twitter because there was some MTV film blog that quoted me on something really innocuous that I supposedly said on Twitter before I was even on Twitter. So then I had to get on Twitter to say: 'This is me. I'm on Twitter. If there's somebody else saying that they're me on Twitter, they're not.'

I guess people feel like they kind of know me. The game developer me, or the Twitter persona, that's Notch. It's a censored version. The real me is Markus.

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

Tech gives people more opportunities to be themselves in front of other people. Sometimes that's great; sometimes it's bad.

I have never been attracted to increasing my popularity or hireability by being on Instagram.

I had no ghost writers for the books - I wrote every line myself.

There's more of me on Twitter than there is in real life.

Personally, even though I have a great PR team, no one except my husband and I touch any of my 10 social media accounts. It's a lot of work, but I know that my brand, my image, and my voice are authentic to me.

Social media should be a true sense of who you are.

Am I allowed to ask my book / whether it's true I wrote it?

You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more and more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because it's text that create identity. That's how I got interested in plagiarism.

Then I found another one, grandpa's poem. It turned out it had been written by Emily Brontë and it wasn't my grandfather's poem at all, although my response to it, I think, was pretty much the same, I just had the author wrong.

Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.

And the books you write. They're not you. They're not me sitting here, this Henry Miller. They belong to someone else. It's terrible. You can never rest.

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation - but, then I couldn't be myself either.

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?

I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?

There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.

When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.