Teach Students to Steal–Just Like Great Writers

The brilliant John Cleese imparts his advice to young writers: steal if you have to!  In this clip from Big Think, the Fawlty Towers star shares how theft is a necessary part of the creative process. In stealing things like ideas, form, and syntax, writers inevitably put their own “stamp” on their work.

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