How your mind makes you plagiarize

Cryptomnesia has been defined as “the belief that a thought is novel when in fact it is a memory,” Maria Popova writes, and it's something that can trip up even the best writers as a result: "Helen Keller experienced the repercussions of this phenomenon when she was accused of plagiarism, Henry Miller questioned it when he wrote 'And your way, is it really your way?' and Coleridge often tripped over the fine line between unconscious borrowing and deliberate theft."

October 24, 2014

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