Quotes About Originality

A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.

True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.

I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

That's not writing, that's typing.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.

Life is mostly freehand.

Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original. First rule of restoration: follow the intention of the artist. Never try to improve on him.

Maar ik moet zeggen dat ik mijn geduld verlies met fictie die iets probeert wat nog niet eerder is geprobeerd, liefst het met medium zelf.

not in the stupid-ass Miley Cyrus poser-sex way—and

They're just different. They experience the world in a different way. Normal is just what's average, it's not necessarily the only way of being, or living—

No eres como Wrath," dejó escapar ella. "Nadie es como Wrath.

Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else?

Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not publishing's -

If this bores you it's because you want bricks in your soup

Every individual has a unique contribution.

As good as 'Twin Peaks' was, and I mean, it's a superb work that's way ahead of its time, and we've never caught up, and we never will... I mean, we will never catch up to 'Twin Peaks.'

Put your own twist to it. That's how you say relevant. Or things get old and boring.

One of the most important things to me is to make things real, not have models who are perfectly groomed or clothes that are too perfect. It all has to have a twist because that's how people live.

See, it's kind of like James Bond. There's a new James Bond every couple of years. Maybe I can do the new 'MacGyver' and put my own twist on it.