“All writers steal from their own lives.”
“Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.”
“A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off”
“I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.”
“Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?”
“We are all the fools of time and terror: DaysSteal on us and steal from us; yet we live,Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.”