Quotes About Originality

After you've found your voice," Collins continued, "you realize there's only one person to imitate and that's yourself … This allows you to be authentic. That's one of the paradoxes of the writing life, that the way to originality is through imitation.

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

One must speak in such a way that although someone else, or many others, or an infinite number of people have said it before, it seems as though you said it first.

You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, 'Your style just isn't right because you don't use the really flowery language that romances have.' My romances - compared to what's out there - are very strange, very odd, very different. And I think that's one of the reasons they're selling.

laughter emerges in the realization that all along the original was derived.

when all of life is a costume party, costume parties are no longer possible.

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of being a second-rate version of someone else.

never be a second-rate version of someone else, be a first-rate version of yourself

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else

S? fii intodeauna o versiune de prim? mân? a propriei persoane, nu una de mâna a doua a altcuiva.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else.

Thank you for coming over to congratulate me," Penelope said. "I wouldn't have missed this for the world," Lady Danbury said. "Heh heh heh. All these fools, trying to figure out what you did to get him to marry you, when all you really did was be yourself.

Oh, don't call yourself odd. Let others do that, if they insist. Call yourself original. It has a much nicer ring to it.

I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.

When I listen to a Coldplay record, you're gonna hear an indie band, and you know that's what you're gonna get from Coldplay. With myself, I'm not sure it's the same.

I appreciate individualism.

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

Everyone has their own individuality and it is important that it comes out.

Rather than deliberately trying to draw something, use something you yourself like and want to draw, and I think the characters that come out of that will really have their own individuality.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.