I am also a thief in all of the same ways. When I write, I am doing nothing but laundering sentences and grammar rules from my English textbooks as well as sam

I am also a thief in all of the same ways. When I write, I am doing nothing but laundering sentences and grammar rules from my English textbooks as well as sampling from the millions of sentences that I have read in my lifetime to compose into this comment as a response to your prompt. When I code, I heavily reference existing implementations and often only make minor stylistic changes, copying algorithms and data structures wholesale from memory. When I cook, I'm literally copying the contents of the cookbooks or cooking channels with a few minor substitutions at best. Unfortunately, I am not brilliant enough to come up with my own algorithms, recipes, or literary flourishes. Few people are truly "creators", to be honest, and even creators build off or derive from existing work.