Ben Domenech Quotes

'Would I mind if someone wrote a sequel to one of my books?' I asked myself, and I decided that I wouldn't, providing that the writer was respectful, had read my book first, and wasn't drunk when doing it.

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

Nothing in the television show 'True Detective' was plagiarized.

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.

Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

Everyone plagiarizes me. Ever since I wrote my autobiography.

I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and go to jail.

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

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

Self-plagiarism is style.

In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.

I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.

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

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

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

There's a difference between hiring writers and stealing jokes.

Sometimes a line enters your head, and you're so grateful for it. You go online to check to see if anyone wrote it before you. You must have stolen it.

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 a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.

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

Originality is undetected plagiarism.