James Altucher Quotes

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

You can't be the director of education and plagiarizing.

To engage in downright plagiarism is disappointing. It's cynical, opportunistic and hypocritical.

I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for having her students read one of my stories or novels.

I hate it when people just downright copy. I hate it.

PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.

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

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

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

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.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

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

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

The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person's ideas and tries to claim them as his own.

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

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

Blake is damned good to steal from.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.