George A. Moore Quotes

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

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

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

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

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.

Everyone steals from something or someone.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

A lot of people accuse me of copying Courtney Love.

Blake is damned good to steal from.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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

Everybody steals my lines.

When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.

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

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.

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.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

I steal from every movie ever made.

You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

When you're doing something for the first time, you don't know it's going to work. You spend seven or eight years working on something, and then it's copied. I have to be honest: the first thing I can think, all those weekends that I could have at home with my family but didn't. I think it's theft, and it's lazy.