Randall Jarrell Quotes

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

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

Blake is damned good to steal from.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

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

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

I rip off of every movie and TV show I've ever seen in my life.

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.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.

Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

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

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

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

I'm not trying to feed off of a concept that another artist had - that's not what I do.

Everybody steals my lines.

And I don't want people to think that I make movies based on other films.

You can't complain about everybody that steals your sound. You'll be fighting for years trying to figure out how to make people not steal it.

A lot of people accuse me of copying Courtney Love.

In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.