The only ‘ism’ Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
Plagiarism Quotes
Plagiarize, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
I suppose that now if I ever wrote a play about myself I’d be sued for plagiarism.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we all are wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
(Johnson) said, our judges had not gone deep in the question concerning literary property. I mentioned Lord Monboddo’s opinion, that if a man could get a work by heart, he might print it, as by such an act the mind is exercised. Johnson: “No, Sir; a man’s repeating it no more makes it his property, […]
I’d rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer; but – when someone has the wit to coin a useful word, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed some from Socrates. I swiped some from Chesterfield. I stole some from Jesus, and I put them in a book. If you don’t like their ideas, whose would you use?
The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
