Self Plagiarism Quotes

#1. Footnoting references, signalling quotations, and so on were no part of a 13th-century scholar's duty. He could recycle his own and his predecessor's work without a qualm. He knew nothing of copyright and plagiarism, which are 17th-century inventions.

Fergus Kerr

#2. The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.

T.D. Jakes

#3. All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.

Jacob Braude

#4. The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?

Anthony Marais

#5. If you copy from one author, it's plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it's research.

Wilson Mizner

#6. Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it

Guy Debord

#7. Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.

John McPhee

#8. Plagiarism is the fear of a blank page.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#9. Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.

Robert K. Merton

#10. Existing is plagiarism.

Emile M. Cioran

#11. Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.

Margaret Cavendish

#12. All wisdom is plagiarism; only stupidiy is original.

Hugh Kerr

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

Anatole France

#14. what is originality ? undetected plagiarism!

William Ralph Inge

#15. To some extent the history of plagiarism is a history of notebooks.

Thomas Mallon

#16. Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.

Charles Stross

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

Nora Roberts

#18. Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

Benjamin West

#19. I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

Jimi Hendrix

#20. When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.

Jay Kay

#21. Using a big word like 'plagiarism' ... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

Michel Houellebecq

#22. In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

Miroslav Volf

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

Robert Genn

#24. It's not plagiarism in the digital age
it's repurposing.

Kenneth Goldsmith

#25. There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism
self-denial.

G.K. Chesterton

#26. There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the standards and taste of his choices in matters of high-level plagiarism.

Hunter S. Thompson

#27. Most authors steal their works, or buy.

Alexander Pope

#28. I get a lot of big ideas, and occasionally I actually come up with one myself.

Bauvard

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

Molly Ivins

#30. Art is either revolution or plagiarism

Paul Gauguin

#31. 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.

Ihab Hassan

#32. Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

Howard Dietz

#33. If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

Wilson Mizner

#34. Self-plagiarism is style.

Alfred Hitchcock