Quotes About Originality

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

Be a voice, not an echo.

Colui che segue la folla non andrà mai più lontano della folla. Colui che va da solo sarà più probabile che si troverà in luoghi dove nessuno è mai arrivato...

What a person does on his own, without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of others, is even in the best of cases rather paltry and monotonous.

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

Imagination is more important than intelligence.

Secretul creativit??ii st? în ÅŸtiinÅ£a de a-Å£i ascunde sursele.

La Creatividad es la Inteligencia divirtiéndose

I'd rather be myself, he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.

Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

This is not drawing,' he cried, 'this is inspiration!' 'I had meant it to be drawing,' was Constable's characteristic answer.

And it's what you never will write, said the Controller. Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello.

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers; and only someone with a mind like Shelley's can write Prometheus Unbound. The deliberate forger has little chance with his contemporaries and none at all with posterity.

Radije ?u ostati ono što jesam,a ne netko drugi,ma koliko on veseo bio.

Oh, these rags and tags of other people's making! Would he ever be able to call his brain his own? Was there, indeed, anything in it that was truly his own, or was it simply an education?

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly." "A

I'd rather be myself...Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Todas las personas que no se conforman con la ortodoxia, que tienen ideas propias. En una palabra, personas que son alguien.

Having the freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

Nadie es todo el mundo, ni nadie es repetido. Parecido, puede ser. Repetido, no. Y eso es la vida: encontrar a los parecidos y esquivar a los repetidos. Lo demás llega o no, aparece o no, duele o no

I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.

We should all busy ourselves in being who we are, although many of us do not and spend so much time and energy being something else. We try to be what others want us to be, or what we ourselves want to be. And then we suddenly realise that our lives have shot past and we have not got round to being who we really