Certain Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts…

— Rafael Sabatini

“Unknowing imitation is almost a recipe for bad design. If you don’t know where your ideas are coming from, you’re probably imitating an imitator.”

— Paul Graham

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

— Ann Beattie

As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism.…

— Samuel Johnson

Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.

— Raymond Pettibon

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than…

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

— W. H. Auden

“While I do see lots of repetitious writing among authors, that does not apply to all, and certainly not to me. Average minds think…

— Calvin W. Allison

“This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the authors’ imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to…

— Lori Copeland

Any writer who pretends to a disaffection for recognition, I think they're being duplicitous.

— Harlan Ellison

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

— Stephen King