Quotes About Originality

But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

He follows his own way these days, even more than most of us. 'Twas as goof a description of madness as any I've heard.

There cannot be new things in England. There can be old things freshly presented or new things that pretend to be old.

You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.

Write the book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.

The door was flung open. Maurice Duplay filled it; energetic master, shirt- sleeves rolled up. He threw out his arms, the good Jacobin Duplay, and formed a sentence totally original, something which had never been uttered in the history of the world: "Camille, you have a son, and your wife is very well, and is asking you to be at home, right now.

The dull-hued turkey apes the gait Of lordly peacock, richly plumed; And thus the poetaster shows When he would fain his verse recite.

What if the way I am is the way I am? What if, when everything else is different, I'm not?

I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.

What if the way I am is the way I am? What if, when everything else is different, I'm not?

I don't want to be a creature, shaped by their hands and quickened with their blood. Something made like a doll, from snow and sticks. An assemblage of parts, stranger even than the sluagh.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

If you don't think for yourself, then you're admitting that your theory of happiness is the old dog asleep in the sun.

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

Show me your original face, the one you had before your parents were born.

A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy -- at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Dont you compare me cause there aint nobody near me. They dont see me, but they hear me. They dont fear me, but they feel me.

Im a new song and youre just a remix.

I've never been in style, so I can never go out of style.

It's important to still look like yourself on your wedding day, so I didn't do anything drastic.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.