Steal Quotes

Where borrowing ends and stealing begins.

These steal quotes play with the idea that taking from one source looks different than taking from many, especially in creative fields built on influence. See our Art quotes for related themes.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

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

Quotes by Wilson Mizner

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Everybody just wants to steal each other's energy.

Quotes by Ty Dolla Sign

Nobody talked about my defense or that I used to steal bases, too.

Quotes by Tony Gwynn

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Quotes by T. S. Eliot

I'm a great collaborator. I really am. I will steal anyone's idea if it is a good one.

Quotes by Sondra Locke

You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.

Quotes by Roy Rogers

I steal from every movie ever made.

Quotes by Quentin Tarantino

Moroccan boys never steal from Moroccans.

Quotes by Pim Fortuyn

There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

Quotes by Paul Thomas Anderson

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Pablo Picasso

People will steal ideas and put them into songs.

Quotes by Mike McCready

I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

Quotes by Michael Nyman

As a child, I used to steal Indian film magazines.

Quotes by Mahira Khan

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Quotes by Lionel Trilling

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.

Quotes by Lionel Trilling

I would never steal another woman's man.

Quotes by Kristen Renton

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

Quotes by Kevin Costner

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

Quotes by Jimmy Breslin

I had to steal to survive.

Quotes by Jesse Jackson

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