Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All writers steal. You might as well steal from the best.
Good writers are of necessity rare.
Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Today, writers want to impress other writers.
I enjoy being influenced by other writers.
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.
There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers.
Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.
The most valuable writers are those in whom we find not themselves, or ourselves, or the fugitive era of their lifetimes, but the common vision of all times.
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