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• I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of different books. And you begin by maybe copying the style of writers that really knocked you out.

  Stephen King

  Book, Thinking, Numbers

  "Stephen King wants to reach out and grab you — with his writing". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2016.

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• I have a great advantage: I write from the perspective of my own voice. I'm not copying anyone's voice. It's my voice. I have the advantage of being a writer of English as a second language.

  Chath Piersath

  Writing, Voice, Perspective

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

  Seth Godin

  Creativity, Successful, People

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• Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

  Chet Atkins

  Research, Stealing, Persons

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• It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Literature, Scripts, Study

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• The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes.

  Michael Heizer

  Mean, Say Anything, Different

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• I was never good at copying. I was better at doing my own thing!

  Michael Angelo Batio

  My Own

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• I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.

  Georges Braque

  Achieve, Unison

  Georges Braque (1971). “Illustrated notebooks, 1917-1955”, Dover Pubns

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• Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Mind, Wish, Firsts

  Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection [6 Books]”, p.350, Aeterna Press

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