Quotes About Originality

My best work is not behind me! He yells, You know, nobody does a better split-reed standing anal with an on-demand hands-free pop-shot release.

Nada en mí es original. Soy el esfuerzo combinado de todas las personas a las que he conocido. Yo escribo y Brandy lee. La persona a la que quieres y la persona que te quiere nunca son la misma persona.

Haute couture and getting hauter. Fire inches down the foyer wallpaper. Me, for added set dressing I started the fire. Special effects can go a long way to heighten a mood, and it's not as if this is a real house. 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?

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

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

No se nos podía ocurrir nada que no estuviera haciendo ya un millon de personas.

She says, We're all some kind of genius. Just, she says, some of us in other ways.

sticking feathers up your butt,Tyler says,does not make you a chicken

Power meant Jamal not having to present himself as an imperfect copy of someone he'd never wanted to be in the first place.

Writers are goofy-headed moon-units.

recent IBM poll of fifteen hundred CEOs identified creativity as the number-one "leadership competency" of the future.

There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.

I really believe that there is an enormous appetite amongst readers for an originality of vision. In other words, be true to your own dreams and there will always be people who want to hear them.

Keep it simple. Trust your imagination. Discover what is unique about your imagination. Don't simply read a story and copy it. I go into myself. Then I transcribe what visions I have. If those ideas are original, and you are devoted, you will go far.

Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or as though you have to create after some preordained model. You don't have to write like myself, or King or Anne Rice: be yourself. Nothing is more wonderful than discovering a new voice, particularly if it happens to be your own.

In his perversity, or his genius, or both

What matters is there's something in you which is unique to you. And that's the only thing that matters. Not being the next Clive Barker, not being the next… whatever. What matters is being the next whoever you are. The only whoever you are. And - right or wrong - I'm the only Clive Barker.

So you can't please all the people all the time. All you can do is what pleases you, and hope that it pleases other people. I love my readers, and I respect my readers, but I'm not going to simplify or echo myself, copy myself, just so the sales will be better.

Oh. Really? Smith? The most common, boring name in the world? - Evaline, to Pix

To return to the moment of radical innocence. To paint. To stretch canvas. To find the point of originality. It wasn't a hippie idea. Both of us always hated the hippies, their flowers, their poems, their one idea. We were the furthest thing from hippies. We were the edge, the definers.

You have to look on the world with a shine like no one else has.

But it was only genius if you thought of it first. A teacher told him that. Genius is lonely.

My interest does not lie in raising parrots that just rehash "their master's voice," but rather in passing the torch to "independent and inventive, innovative and creative spirits.