Chris Cubas Quotes

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

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

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

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

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

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

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

Never steal jokes.

I firmly believe in copyrights and am put off by plagiarism.

Ten comics can say the same joke, and I'm the one who gets called a thief.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

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

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

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

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

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

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Creativity in copyright law only means that you didn’t copy it from someone else …. Most works that are protected under copyright are not creative in the colloquial sense of the word.

If you can't plagiarise yourself, who can you plagiarise?

I write all of my material. It's all me.

I had no ghost writers for the books - I wrote every line myself.

If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.

I do hear snippets on the radio. I do hear a little bit of me, sometimes great chunks of me. But I have to take that as a compliment; there's no way you can get sour grapes about that. But if somebody starts taking your whole new thing lock, stock, and barrel, and do their own version of it before you do it, that's not on.

I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed!