Plagiarism Quotes - Page 2

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

I recover my property wherever I find it.

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it

Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.

Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.

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

No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.

Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.