When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.
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.
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.