Be inspired by other writers
Summary
- Be inspired by other writers.
- Use ideas from others, but put them in your own words, or develop them into different ideas
Details
- Stealing from one writer is plagiarism, stealing from several is research
- give credit where due
References
Quotes
But steal small, not big, and don’t steal from just one source. Someone once said that if you steal from one writer, it’s called plagiarism, but if you steal from several, it’s called research. So steal from everybody, but steal only a sentence or a phrase at a time. If you use much more than that, you must get permission and then give credit. Here are two examples of acceptable, honorable ways to steal.