The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you dont like their rules whose would you use?
Take the whole range of imaginative literature and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention to use or beauty or form we are borrowers.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
PLAGIARIZE v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never never read.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you dont like their rules whose would you use?
Take the whole range of imaginative literature and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention to use or beauty or form we are borrowers.