Jack Kelley Quotes

I know that charges of plagiarism are serious.

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

Be wary of cutting and pasting research nuggets directly into your manuscript.

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

You can't be the director of education and plagiarizing.

Don't take what someone else has made sure of and pretend it's you yourself that have made sure of it till it's yours absolutely by conviction. It's stealing to take it and hypocrisy and you'll fall into a hole.

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.

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

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.

That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.

Being honest with the public is how they respect you.

Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help of a dissertation that, as two Brookings researchers discovered, included sixteen stolen pages - and, remarkably, not a single set of quotation marks.

The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.

I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Scientific fraud, plagiarism, and ghost writing are increasingly being reported in the news media, creating the impression that misconduct has become a widespread and omnipresent evil in scientific research.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

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.

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.