Quotes About Originality

She was tuned in to a different station from most people and the tuning dial was broken.

We are not polyester people.

I've always admired stylists. I put the writers of bumphable, ready-to-wear prose, calculated to sell, guaranteed not to shock, in the same category as artists who can't draw. There is a lack of bravery and a lot of fraud in them. I have tried never to write a book that didn't attempt something new in the way of narrative technique. Writing is an assault on cliche. I find little to admire in writers who make no attempt at originality.

Make your own kind of music. Sing your own special song. But don't crank the volume up so loudly you annoy the heck out of all the neighbors.

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'

Mix up your posts and don't use auto-share or posting programs because those put the same content everywhere. You want to engage your fans, not spam them with the exact same posts on all networks.

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

People are like snowflakes, no two are ever alike.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

Every book, every editor, every teacher will tell you that the great key to success in authorship is originality

In short, our Marianne is just not in the common style. We shall simply have to present her as an original." She sobered abruptly. "How very stupid Perry was, to be sure. This girl might have changed his life." To this uncharacteristically severe judgment on the part of his normally charitable parent, the marquess returned no answer.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

Saturday Night was also founded on the notion that repetition and habit stifle true creativity, true originality.

Artist communities love to bullshit each other and glad-hand one another, and there's no room for the crippling honesty of comedy. "I'm a painter" -- well... you don't...probably need to do that. . . . if you're painting something that doesn't exist, I understand that, I can appreciate- . . . but if your pain- 'oh, it's a barnyard scene in autumn'--well then just take a picture of a barn in autumn! It's way better than a painting! - Before Turning the Gun on Himself [2012]

When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker's. It's almost as if someone else wrote it.

Besides, back to the subject of you being nuts, all writers are nuts, didn't you know that?

I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs.

Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

You're an original, an individual, a masterpiece. Celebrate that; don't let your uniqueness make you shy. Don't be someone other than the wonder you are. Every star is important to the sky.

Being guided by your own thoughts and abilities, living out there on the high wire and being rewarded for it: That was the Chicago way. Nothing else counted. If it were sensational enough, whether a scientific breakthrough, a rousing new style of music, or an underworld murder, it would be celebrated.

Aside from your name on the cover of the book, your voice should be your most distinctive signature.

The trick is to state what we know in a recognizable fashion but in a way that is slightly off, in a way that arrests us.

Today you are you, that's truer than true. No one alive is youer than you.