Books Quote by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

— Alexander Pope

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

— Nina Bawden

It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are…

— Ruth Stout

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

— Josh Billings

It is axiomatic among writers that no one ever sues the writer of an unsuccessful book. Just let a book go over twenty-five thousand…

— Margaret Mitchell

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…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.

— Walter Moers

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

All writers steal from their own lives.

— Brad Meltzer

When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest…

— Edward Abbey

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

— Wilson Mizner

Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not plagiarized, mind…

— Austin Kleon