Self-plagiarism is style.
The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.
There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman with a case.
The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several magazine essays on blog posts, as well as an entire book.
The Internet makes the writer work harder - I have to say things here I've never said before, or else be caught out in repeating myself.
Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
I try not to steal from myself, but the modalities create similarities.
I'm in Alkaline Trio; I guess I get to rip off myself. I give myself permission.
When a well-known creative person such as me is perceived to have created a knockoff of my own previous work, such a perception is a mortal blow to my reputation as a creative person.
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
If you can't plagiarise yourself, who can you plagiarise?
I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.
