Theft Quote by Nina Bawden Download Open image “All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.” — Nina Bawden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Theft Theft Necessary Thieves Thieves Theft Tools Trade Writers Thieves Writing
“To become better writers we must become the best thieves and liars in the business. We slink around the pages of everyone else’s work… — Chris Stocking Copy Share Image
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All money represents theft… To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is… — Jerry Rubin Copy Share Image
Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The difference between theft and destruction is often a few keystrokes. — Dmitri Alperovitch Copy Share Image
“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
The Chinese government does not engage in theft of commercial secrets in any form, nor does it encourage or support Chinese companies to engage… — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
