Quotes About Originality

That's all we writers have, anyway; our minds and imaginations. To allow censors even the tiniest space in there with us can only lead to dullness, imitation, and mediocrity.

If you define your personality as creative, it only means you understand what is perceived to be creative by the world at large, so you're really just following a rote creative template. That's the opposite of creativity. Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time. But ANYWAY...

Not all crazy people are brilliant, but almost all brilliant people are crazy.

The mere recognition of an extrinsic reality damages the intrinsic merits of one's own reality. In other words, it's a mistake to (consciously) do what everyone else is doing, just as it's a mistake to (consciously) do the opposite.

My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!

We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.

Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people……..

For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.

Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it's mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.

What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done...

The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.

You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore. I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk

With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.

Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people.

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill

do not write to be liked. Write to be remembered.

La verdadera inteligencia empieza cuando uno deja de citar a los demás...

It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?

Wallace Boyer (Car Salesman): Sell cars long enough and you'll see: Nobody's all that original. Any lone weirdo comes from a big nest of weirdos. What's weird is, you go to some pigsty village in Slovakia, and suddenly even Andy Warhol makes perfect sense.

Sticking feathers up your butt," Tyler says, does not make you a chicken.

All of our making fun of things isn't making the world any better. We've spent so much time judging what other people have created that we've created very, very little of our own.