Christina Tosi Quotes

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

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

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

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

Blake is damned good to steal from.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

I hate it when people just downright copy. I hate it.

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

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.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

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 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.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

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

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.