Margaret Cavendish Quotes

I borrow bits from everyone.

It's so funny, I'm always stealing from Moliere, and nobody ever notices. I steal from him willy-nilly.

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

There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories.

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off

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.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

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.

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

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

All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest.

All writers steal. You might as well steal from the best.

The most original minds borrowed from one another.

I do know there's a lot of music where Led Zeppelin has been leant on. We didn't do anything about it. And I wouldn't want to, either.

I won't lie, I stole a lot of ideas from Giampaolo.

Although there's no one I really pattern my game after, I am a firm believer in stealing stuff from other people.