Anatole France Quotes

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

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

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.

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

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'

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.

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.

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

When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.

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

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

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

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.

Blake is damned good to steal from.

Everyone steals from something or someone.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

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.

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

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

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.