Plagiarism Quotes

It is very difficult to talk about plagiarism in terms of themes between novels. Otherwise there wouldn't be that many novels written because everyone feeds off everybody else.

B. R. Hayden
- Novels
- Plagiarism
- Feeds
Being innovative these days is sometimes having the lack of ego or guts to imitate something. Heck, in the newspaper industry, plagiarism is grounds for firing. In the NFL, you get a raise for doing that.

Randy Cross
- Ego
- Newspaper
- NFL

Plagiarize! Plagiarize, Let no one else's work evade your eyes, Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, So don't shade your eyes, But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize... Only be sure always to call it please "research".

Tom Lehrer
- Remember
- Eye
- Lord
I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.

Will McDonough
- Lost
- Internet
- Journalism
If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!

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

Molly Ivins
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin
- Revolution
- Plagiarism
I find this less scandalous than beautiful: a kind of palimpsestic plagiarism that moves through bodies and time, a collective song with no single origin, or whose origin has been erased--the way a star, from our earthly perspective, is often survived by its own light.

Ben Lerner
- Song
- Light
- Survived