Quotes About Individuality

I am against the notion of style in itself.

This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

Every other 16-year-old girl wanted to look at bridal magazines; I could not have been more bored with the notion.

I have this strange notion that clothes should be fun.

I don't have a very strong notion about anything when it comes to fashion. I am okay experimenting but I know that I don't experiment.

I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

It's a common notion that if you like Tagore, then he must have had an influence on your life. While I like Tagore's poetry and his thoughts, he doesn't influence my work.

How do we innovate and make things that challenge the notion of being stuck in a place of just being popular?

There are no fixed notions on what I should pick up or follow, it has to first appeal to me.

Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether it's feminist writer, Jewish writer, Russian writer, or whatever.

I grew up in Nova Scotia, so there weren't a whole lot of rules.

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.

I think if I was interested in writing on my own, I would be a novelist - then you could write about yourself, and that would be it. You wouldn't need anyone else.

Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'

Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty.

Being a novelty had its advantages.

Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

Although my parents both liked her, they just didn't approve of a same-sex relationship. Nowadays, people say that you must let children be what they are, but when I was growing up, the parents defined the child - and my parents had a definite vision of how they wanted me to be.