Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

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

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

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.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

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

Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence

Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.

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

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

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

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.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

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

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

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

Self-plagiarism is style.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Inspiration is one thing. Stealing is another.

I think anything created today can be said to be a ripoff. It's hard to find anything original any more.