Sophie Hannah Quotes

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

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

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

I don't want nobody to ever say, 'I coulda done that beat' or 'I know where you got that from.'

Inspiration is one thing. Stealing is another.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

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

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

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

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

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove 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 got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

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

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

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

Copying is a form of self-validation.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.