The height of originality is skill in concealing origins.

The best way to be original is to be yourself.

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

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Many a man fails as an original thinker, simply because his memory it too good.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Even in literature and art no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will nine times out of ten become original without ever having noticed it.