Involved Quote by Jonathan Lethem

“The writer Jonathan Lethem has said that when people call something “original,” nine out of ten times they just don’t know the references or…

— Austin Kleon

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

— Anonymous

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— William Ralph Inge

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

— Benjamin Franklin

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

— Anonymous

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

— Franklin P. Jones

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

— Laurence J. Peter

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

— William Ralph Inge

Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

— Voltaire

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth…

— C. S. Lewis

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

— Stephen Dunn