Quotes About Originality

I try to renew and create something new every time.

It doesn't matter; even if you do tend to wear the same things all the time, it's how you wear them and your attitude that counts.

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.

The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of having significant ideas.

She is not what I envied in high school, the popular girl. She is something I'm not even sure existed then, the sure-footed girl. She gives the impression of being completely herself, and only a part of that impression is false.

Everyone here thinks my interest is just a passing fancy, since they've never heard of a teenager with an appreciation of mythology. Well then, I guess I'm the first!

Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.

Mark Twain said that Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before.

You want to avoid at all costs drawing your characters on those that already exist in other works of fiction. You must learn about people from people, not from what you read. Your reading should confirm what you've observed in the world.

Miles Davis saying, "Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

If I haven't put that on a T-shirt, I'm going to. Actually, I really don't want to write anything that can't be put on a T-shirt. Actually I'd like to write only on T-shirts. Actually, I'd like to write whole novels on T-shirts. So you guys could say, 'I'm wearing chapter 8 of Lestat's new book, that's my favorite; oh I see you're wearing chapter 6-

I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.

Write the book you want to read

You were always his inspiration. He imitated you.

Artists! They were all crazy. In a good way, of course.

What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter; some nearness to death; some call to courage. I myself was getting wild; I wanted wildness, originality, genius, rapture, hope. I wanted strength, not tea parties. What I sought in books was a world whose surfaces, whose people and events and days lived, actually matched the exaltation of the interior life. There you could live.

The opening chapter was the book's unique selling point, the singular idea that had carried Darcy through last November, and Coleman had just come up with it off the top of his head.

she wasn't so much a writer as a thief.

We all steal," Standerson said. "The trick is to steal from regular people, not other novelists.

I saw an old woman dressed in seatcovers, sewn into a dress, a man in a jacket made from a flag. It gave them an air of desperate grandeur, like guests at an asylum ball.