--- title: Quotes: Showing Off, Credit, and the Construction of... description: An exploration of why people use quotes in conversation and writing, examining the tension between showing off and giving credit. The author argues that citing... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/quotes-showing-off-credit-and-the-construction-of-authorship-buv6bcmua twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Quotes: Showing Off, Credit, and the Construction of Authorship | daily.dev og:description: An exploration of why people use quotes in conversation and writing, examining the tension between showing off and giving credit. The author argues that citing... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/quotes-showing-off-credit-and-the-construction-of-authorship-buv6bcmua og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/buv6BCMUA.png og:image:alt: Quotes: Showing Off, Credit, and the Construction of Authorship og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Quotes: Showing Off, Credit, and the Construction of Authorship **[Stefanos Baziotis](https://daily.dev/sources/sbaziotis)** · 18 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An exploration of why people use quotes in conversation and writing, examining the tension between showing off and giving credit. The author argues that citing sources is a moral imperative rooted in the concept of authorship, then traces how authorship itself is a relatively recent historical construction — emerging from Romantic-era ideas about originality — rather than a timeless universal value. Evidence from medieval writing practices and Greek folk music illustrates that prior cultures had no concept of individual authorship. The piece concludes by suggesting authorship may be deeply tied to the notion of private property. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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