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Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

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

The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.

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

Self-plagiarism is style.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

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

Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened.