Quotes About Originality

There's no point in me being something other than me.

I feel like women are so specific and special, that there's no point as a woman to emulate somebody. If you shoot for a masculine direction but be yourself, you're going to get something completely new, because your femininity will show up.

You have to write the story that's at the front of your head. There is no point in trying to write for the market; it won't ring true.

I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Being a freak isn't the same thing as having a talent.

Mi genio, si se puede decir así, consiste en combinar un montón de cualidades medias en una representación compacta.

My genius, if I can call it that, is to combine a whole load of averageness into one compact frame.

He was an average man. A man willing to accept things as they were, and, because of this, he lacked the potential to be in anyway original.

Looking at his reflection in the dark window, Litvinoff believed something had been peeled away and a truth revealed to him: He was an average man. A man willing to accept things as they were, and, because of this, he lacked the potential to be in any way original. And though he was wrong in every way about this, after that night nothing could dissuade him.

By studying the masters and not their pupils.

it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.

Writing for the gallery is something that a writer must resist no matter who he is. You know the writers that are writing for their audience because they write the same book over and over again with the sort of cute things their readership likes. Serious writers write things that compel them, new challenges, new situations, and a new landscape that they have not been in before.

Nije mi žao što su ukrali moje ideje, ve? što nisu imali svoje

Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone–that is the secret of invention.

I don't care that they stole my idea. I care that they don't have any of their own.

The carrying out into practise of a crude idea as is being generally done is, I hold, nothing but a waste of energy, money and time. My

I [had] admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists

Anti-social behaviour is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

Life among clones would not be worth living, and a sane person will only rejoice that others have abilities that they do not share. That should be elementary.

He was singing a song he had composed entirely without professional assistance.

Is what you think interesting enough to make the reader care? Are you saying something that no one has said? Above all, do you understand that you are not as important as what you're covering?