Quotes About Originality

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

It is not an exaggeration to say U2 began to write our own songs because we couldn't play other people's. Baby steps for a baby band.

Well, one of the things that hits have and that great music always has, you know--the music feels like it was already there.

I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.

It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you can´t place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality.

Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.

Perhaps the natural character of a man may be best seen before breakfast. The world is created anew for us every morning, and he is just then reissued, as it were, from the hands of nature, with all his original peculiarities fresh upon him.

I would, however, add some ideas and that's what this brand new and

outside-the-box

Myron looked at the door as Zorra entered in all his sartorial splendor. He wore his Veronica Lake–on–meth wig, a green monogrammed sweater, and a skirt in a hue Zorra would undoubtedly call "sea foam." When

The creator of Sir John Falstaff, of Hamlet, and of Rosalind also makes me wish I could be more myself. But that, as I argue throughout this book, is why we should read, and why we should read only the best of what has been written.

The originals are not original, but that Emersonian irony yield to the Emersonian pragmatism that the inventor knows how to borrow.

One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies.

La escritura mala es toda igual; la buena escritura es de una diversidad escandalosa.

The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. – From the book jacket

She was one of the rare ones, so effortlessly herself, and the world loved her for it.

He rarely gathered news; people brought it to him. It was said he made up every edition of The Maycombe Tribune out of his own head and wrote it down on the linotype.

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.

There's nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don't fit the stereotype yet.

What's really important here, I whispered loudly to myself,is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have

No matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves.

If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?