Quotes About Originality

If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.

I think I kind of want to get to a point of being as successful as possible in a way that's unique to me.

I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

Never say never. I always want to look like myself - that's key for me. I don't want to look like a different person, I don't want my face frozen.

Influence means power, and I don't want that. Whatever happens, here we do our own thing and put it out there for people to take or leave. We're not doing anything to influence them.

You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the success.

There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing.

Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.

This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.

You can find truly original pieces of writing, but they're original because you go, "Who would have even have thought of that?," or, "Why would anyone ever want to go see that?"

She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself

I can make a record like the [previous] one I put out, but I don't want to do that because I want to set the bar so high for myself. I don't want to do it like everyone else.

Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films.

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!

Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.

You must dismantle your sources, Toc the Younger, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others.

Famosity? There must be such a word. I used it!

No preacher, regardless of where he serves, is free to reinvent preaching.

Don't try to be different or memorable with your storytelling voice—be authentic.

Go ahead and break the rules, flip expectations, twist the story world around backwards—as long as it's in the service of your readers.

qualify as a hack, the feat must be imbued with innovation, style, and technical virtuosity.

We believe that innovative authors are more likely to come from people who are independent and won't work in a software 'factory' or 'bureaucracy.

I'm not sure about the selling part, but I've always found that the things I've worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.