T. S. Eliot

On Influence, Influenza and Outright Thievery

Submitted by David Cherry on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 8:48am

Photo Credit: Glad Day for Surfin,' after William "Hodad" Blake by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com Lately, I have been thinking a lot about this aphorism. It seems to have as many originators as it does permutations. The gist of it is, “good writers borrow; great writers steal.”

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