Pliny the Elder Quotes

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

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

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

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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

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

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

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

I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare.

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

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

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

Self-plagiarism is style.

Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened.

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.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it..

Why don't people just open... my works instead of accusing me?

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

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.

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!

Most authors steal their works, or buy.