Megan McCafferty Quotes

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

Everyone plagiarizes me. Ever since I wrote my autobiography.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets.

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

Blake is damned good to steal from.

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

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

I know that charges of plagiarism are serious.

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

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

I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow.

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

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

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

The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person's ideas and tries to claim them as his own.

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

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

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 steal from every movie ever made.

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.

The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.

Self-plagiarism is style.

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.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.