Quotes About Originality

I like people who are always doing things that would never have occurred to me at that moment.

One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.

I want to live in a world created by art, not just decorated with it

Pensa fuori dagli schemi, smonta gli schemi e falli a pezzi

If you like what you do, then own it," he said. "Be whoever you want to be. The worst thing is trying to be someone you're not.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Crazy people have color and imagination and the thing is, some of us aren't actually crazy. We're just right. -Sarah Lange

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

At Christmas, Dulcie thought, people seemed to lose their status as individuals in their own right and became, as it were, diminished in stature, mere units in families, when for the rest of the year they were bold and original and often the kind of people it is impossible to imagine having such ordinary everyday things as parents. Christmas put people in their places, sent them back to the nursery or cradle, almost.

Let's end the notion that ideas have no value unless they turn into a business or have some other practical use.

I love to invent words but even when I think I've invented one or a new variation on a word, I often find that someone else has already made use of it.

In order to write the novel I'm committed to, I have to pretend that it's not only separate from everything I've written before, but also separate from anything anyone in the history of the universe has written. This is a grotesque delusion and a crass vanity, but also a creative necessity.

It is an abnormal thing to want to be an artist, to practice an art. It is comparatively normal to practice an interpretative art. But to actually make things up is not something that, well, usually runs in families or is the recommendation of a career master.

I think a great book--leaving aside other qualities such as narrative power, characterization, style, and so on--is a book that describes the world in a way that has not been done before; and that is recognized by those who read it as telling new truths.

When a line is good it ceases to belong to any school. A line of prose must be as immutable as a line of poetry.

Why did God create Adam before he created Eve? Because he didn't want anyone telling him how to make Adam.

is entirely appropriate that in twenty-first-century Britain streets that were once filled with artists now contain Britain's highest concentration of advertising agencies; real artists displaced by the counterfeit, the second rate; creative individuals prostituting their talent.

To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another's society.

I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing. Sometimes I think we're all trying to be shadows of each other...

I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing.

Before, I had an idea of what I thought I needed to be, and I'm realizing more and more that being yourself is the best thing.

I'm undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.

Our cinema is coming of age, and people are realizing we need to tell different stories differently and in fresh manner and not just do formula stuff and serve it to the audience.