Susan Sontag Quotes

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.

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

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

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.

Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be any rights of authorship.

Self-plagiarism is style.

It seems like every few years a big name author will holler something about how evil, heinous, and morally wrong fan fiction and fan fiction writers are, and then the Internet gets all upset and shocked, and then the author is shocked that people could get so upset.

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

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

Copyright rewards originality, not effort.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it..

Since [some] American publishers pay nothing to the English authors whose stories they appropriate and publish, other American publishers can not to afford to pay American authors for writing stories.

Copyright and Trademark are completely different things. Copyright prevents anyone from copying this article and posting it somewhere else. Copyright happens instantaneously the moment I write something down that is unique and from my brain. Trademarks are far more restrictive.

When I created the email in the U.S., my mentor could have easily copyrighted it and taken credit for it.

It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.

While I am not a journalist, I have, myself, written more than one thing that has been plagiarized in the past.

I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property, like journalists do, you have a responsibility not to tear it down, but to raise it up. The depiction of rap and of hip-hop culture in the media, I think, is one that needs more of a responsible approach from journalists.

Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.

Am I allowed to ask my book / whether it's true I wrote it?

I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play.

I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.