“good writers borrow, great writers steal”

[Anonymous No.20019743]

Is this true?

[Anonymous No.20019769]

steal what ? catalytic converters ?
under garments off a clothes line?
pens from the office ?

[Anonymous No.20019816]

>>20019769
Actually, they didn't say...

[Anonymous No.20019828]

>>20019816
I'm a great writer and I stole the virginities of all the females in your family, so this is probably true, desu

[Anonymous No.20019833]

yep

[Anonymous No.20019841]

>>20019743
Pretty much. Good writers tend to mimic their idols, they borrow. Great writers develop their own unique style and can just take from anyone and it becomes their own because it is put into their style, they steal.

[Anonymous No.20019845]

>>20019769
> under garments off a clothes line?
ARNOLD LANE
HAD A STRANGE
HOBBY

[Anonymous No.20019866]

>>20019828
Your little sister felt nice against me while I was tonguing your mom; Hurry up with the wife and daughter, incel, I'm ready for round two.

[Anonymous No.20019903]

>>20019743
Yes, that is true. I saw Thomas Pynchon at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen bananas in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each banana and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

[Anonymous No.20019916]

>ctrl c
>ctrl v
>voawah

[Anonymous No.20019933]

>>20019916
It’s pronounced “viola” retard

[Anonymous No.20019962]

>>20019743
It was a few years ago when I stole a balcony planter full of flowers. I dug out the flower, transplanted them next to the road somewhere and to this day I use the planter to grow chives for my omlette.
This makes me a great writer.

[Anonymous No.20020287]

>>20019903
They don't scan banannas tho they just put in how much there are. The bannanas don't have barcodes

[Anonymous No.20020300]

>>20020287
He was stealing individual bananas, each with a barcode sticker on them. What, you thought he was stealing them by the bunch? Are you insane?

[Anonymous No.20020325]

>>20020300
But they dont have barcode stickers, they can't be scanned. Single or bunch, they are unscannable. These bananas elude the scanning machine because there is no code to bar on them. I've been buying groceries for 48 years, I've never seen a banana scaned, ever. Not once

[Anonymous No.20020334]

>>20019743
If you steal and make it better than the original then you are justified. If you steal and its worse than the original, then you suck and you deserve to be canceled

[Anonymous No.20020352]

>>20019962
You're a theiving nigger and I hope you cant breathe to death because of those chives

[Anonymous No.20020364]

>>20020325
I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about buddy. I think you might be suffering from the Mandela effect. Individual bananas have ALWAYS had barcode stickers. If they didn’t, there would be no way of knowing it’s origin, best before/sell by, etc… you’d have all kinds of issues without the ability to scan it.

[Anonymous No.20021082]

>>20020364
>there would be no way of knowing it’s origin
The sticker only shows the brand of 'nana
>best before/sell by
Look at the color
Clearly you've posted a photoshopped image of the barcode onto the banana. Please stop trying to gaslight me, I am older than you, and therefore, am right. Know your place

[Anonymous No.20021098]

>>20020325
>>20020364
reddit

[Anonymous No.20021204]

>>20019743
I think the idea is borrowing's like stealing except you return it when you're done and never really own it.
So great writers don't just take someone else's idea for a lazy way out of making their story work. Instead they outright steal the idea and take it so far that they become more known for it than the original writer was.

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.20021238]

Imitation of style and reworking of similes wordings and styles was a universally known technique employed by the ancients, Cicero and Dionysius both explain this and until Erasmus aping Cicero was how you wrote good Latin.

[Anonymous No.20021443]

>>20020287
>Being this new

[Anonymous No.20021549]

>>20019841
>>20020334
>>20021204
>>20021238
So I shouldn’t feel bad if my work isn’t 100% original and takes inspiration from various different stories?

[Anonymous No.20021556]

>>20021549
Nope, just feel bad if the influence is obvious and unintended to be obvious.

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.20021580]

>>20021549
Not at all, if you can ape multiple people at once why is that a bad thing. If you could write like your two favorite authors conjoint why wouldn’t that be good

[Anonymous No.20021587]

>>20021556
>>20021580
If I wrote a post apocalyptic setting, do you think it would instantly be compared to other media like Fallout and Mad Max? Is that just something that happens when you write for a certain genre?

[Anonymous No.20021593]

>>20021587
yes

[Anonymous No.20021607]

>>20021593
So like I assume a sci fi setting would obviously be compared to Star Wars or Star Treck my default right? Fallout and Mad Max is a big inspiration for my novel but I’m scared people are going to think I ripped them off

[Anonymous No.20021681]

>>20021580
Makes sense, thanks Fred Armisen.

[Anonymous No.20021749]

>>20021587
Depends, is it genre or not? In genre you need to use the tropes and borrowing is essentially that. In the literary fiction world such comparisons would generally be used to show poor form on your part. Do you want a "but" after the comparison or do you want people to just use the comparison to say "if you like x you will love y!"

[Anonymous No.20021843]

>>20021749
So what would be considered “tropes” of the post apocalyptic genre?

[Anonymous No.20021996]

Bump

[Anonymous No.20022000]

>>20019743
I couldn't tell you if it's true by any sort of objective metric but I prefer artists who are unabashed thieves

[Anonymous No.20022079]

>>20021549
There’s no such thing as a 100% original work these days. That’s the point. Anything you can think of has been thought of before.

The point is to make it better or in a new context or twist

[Anonymous No.20022285]

>>20021082
> I am older than you, and therefore, am srnile
Ftfy grandad. Here’s some more banana barcodes for you to chew on. Don’t get grumpy with me just because your memory is starting to go in your old age.