Eve Babitz Quotes

Blake is damned good to steal from.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

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.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

Everyone steals from something or someone.

I steal from every movie ever made.

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

People will steal ideas and put them into songs.

I rip off of every movie and TV show I've ever seen in my life.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.

Inspiration is one thing. Stealing is another.

A lot of people accuse me of copying Courtney Love.

Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks. And, in magic, it's not just the hard work of getting the words and attitude and point of view right; you're taking an actual invention, making something over three or four years, and somebody can just take it.

I hate it when people just downright copy. I hate it.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare.

I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.

When it comes to other people's writing, my older influences are more powerful than more recent ones, partially because I'm now more worried that I'll suddenly accidentally steal something from another writer.