Plagiarized...

My writing is plagiarized, but not from books. I hear speeches, conversations, and single sentences I want, and often in one pass they remain in my mind, to be transcribed at relative leisure.

--Kim Stafford, The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft, p. 9

Tricia’s Thoughts:

I believe I love researching nearly as much as writing. For my fiction, I interview veterans, read memoirs, and spend endless hours searching on the Internet for minor things such as the look of a classroom where U.S. Army medics trained in 1942. Then comes the time when the words saturate my mind and spill out through my fingers onto the keyboard. I can relate to this idea that all writing is plagiarism. My novels are experiences shared by others, recycled to tell a story of my own making.