Birth Quote by Karl Kraus

Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.

— Anonymous

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.

— Charles Stross

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

— Anonymous

there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who…

— Mark Twain

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

— Anthony Horowitz

I think the line between "inspiration" and "plagiarism" is often so thin, that you risk falling into the latter one.

— Ivan Tverdovsky

No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by…

— Samuel Johnson

Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.

— Robert Genn

To steal ideas from one person, would be plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is called research.

— Anonymous

You are born as a unique individual, don't die a copy

— TheUnknown

It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— William Ralph Inge