Advantage Quote by Joseph Addison

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

— Alexander Pope

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

— Josh Billings

There's a truth that comes through when an author performs his own work that is unique and special.

— Michael Feinstein

When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for…

— Samuel Johnson

The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed;

— David Gelernter

“It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“An original is worth more than a copy.”

— Suzy Kassem

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind,…

— Nathalie Sarraute

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The formal innovations of the great masters always have a certain discreetness about them; such is true perfection; only among the small masters does…

— Milan Kundera