25 result(s) for Copycat Quotes.
"The mediocre copy; the good steal."
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different."
"There is no such thing as a really new idea."
"Don't steal ideas. That's called plagiarism. Steal inspiration instead."
"If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research."
"Originality is undetected plagiarism."
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
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"I have always thought of myself as a recycler of ideas and emotions. I think that’s why so many of my songs sound familiar."
"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was."
"Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again."
"The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task."
"There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns."
"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things."
"To be great, be entire; / Leave out nothing or put nothing in; / Exaggerate nothing that is not yours. / Be whole in everything."
"What is originality? Undetected plagiarism."
"I do not believe in originality. If you are not derivative at some point, you are not part of the tradition. "
"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
"There is no great writing, only great rewriting."
"The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way."
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"The key to success is to learn to do something right, and then do it a million times."
"Copying is part of everyone's development. You copy what you admire, and that's how you find your own voice."
"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist."
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
