Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
All writers steal. You might as well steal from the best.
If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late.
Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person's ideas and tries to claim them as his own.
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.
Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.