Nora Ephron Quotes

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

Everyone steals from something or someone.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

Sometimes, I think filmmakers grab too much from real life.

There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories.

Someone very smart once said to me, "Steal, don't borrow." So if there's anything good in anything anyone else does, it's fair game. I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

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

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Blake is damned good to steal from.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

I start listening to something, or I'm seeing somebody a lot or seeing their art. And then I just really want to make a picture of them.

I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.

I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count.

I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.

When starting a project, your influences are the things around you. It doesn't mean you have to sound like it or look like it or anything. It's just something new, and your curiosity becomes enthralled by it.

There's nothing new, even 'new' is inspired by something. We're all, either consciously or unconsciously, we're inspired.

I won't lie, I stole a lot of ideas from Giampaolo.

I don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively.

In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.

I think anything created today can be said to be a ripoff. It's hard to find anything original any more.

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.