Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.
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.
In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.
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.
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.
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.
If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.
I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.
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