Quotes About Originality

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

Say it new or say it straight.

Inaccurate similes and metaphors have the effect of deflecting the reader's attention from the story to the words on the page. Yet when carried off, especially when a simile is original and a metaphor sings, there is no greater glory in the practice of words.

He said when you use your brain, no-one comes near you for ingenuity

Sometimes I worry my ideas might dry up', he says, an odd tone to his voice. 'I'm not sure who I'd be without them. Sometimes I think I'm really just an empty vessel floating about, downloading ideas and not much else.

Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your life in Hoboken isn't Faulkneresque.

What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

Make something new with your life, with your own mind and hands.'

The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore.

To genius life never grows commonplace.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

Imitation is suicide.

You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.

If you show life that isn't yours you are wasting your time without knowing it. Let people see for themselves.

Accept yourself in the way you were created by God, do not anyone else

Many of us live the lives to follow others dreams, we rarely create and follow our own imaginations and dreams.

I do not follow any tradition. I may stand at the beginning of one.

Creativity & innovation is to events, what the heart & soul is to the living

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

Being crazy doesn't mean being mentally challenged. Maybe it just means being you...amplified a 100 times over.

When you imitate others in real life, you deny the world benefits of your uniqueness. So be who you were born to be!.

The greatest realisation in one's life is this: You don't have to follow others! Creating your own path is creating a new path for the world!

Being yourself is an old myth, being fake in this world of cruelness is a new trick

I can only be me not thee, as far as the eyes can see!