Quotes About Originality

Los buenos artistas copian, los grandes roban.

Les bons artistes empruntent, les grands artistes volent.

Rien ne vaut la peine d'être trouvé que ce qui n'a jamais existé encore.

There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.

If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.

God made only one you and He threw the mold away.

I'm as good a Catholic as you, Jess said. I just don't hold with making the world into copies of what I like.

Any fool can kill. It takes genius to create.

The Great Library may have once been a boon, but what is it today? What does it give us? It suppresses! It stifles! You, sir, do you own a book? No, sir, not a blank, filled only with what they want you to read...a real book, an original work, in the hand of the writer? The library owns our memories, yet you cannot own your own books! Why? Why do they fear it? Why do they fear to allow you the choice?

Eccentricity is the universal trait of humanity.

improvisator.

Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of poetry besides the aim to make a poem, of engaging the materials, SHOULD be disappointed. If the poet does not have the chutzpah to jeopardize habituated assumptions and practices, what will be produced will be sleep without dream, a copy of a copy of a copy.

You're so authentic. You are who you are and you aren't willing to apologize for it. I like that.

What do you not have to do in order to produce a new sound?

Write the unpublishable...and then publish it.

Basically, the idea is that with everyone striving to be revolutionary, you will be the most revolutionary if you try to be ordinary.

Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.

Getting fully into the spirit of the thing, I finished off my masterpiece with a rude word

me gustaría pensar que no soy como <> y que mi comportamiento no se ajusta al común de los mortales

I've always felt like I'm Asia: I'm the first me and I'm the first Asia that's going to walk into the room, and I'm here to change the game. That's part of who I am.

I want people to see themselves in a person. I never want someone to aspire to be someone else.

I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit.

All of us have a 'voice' inside where all inspired thoughts come from. When I talk to children and aspiring writers, I always ask them to turn off the TV and listen to that voice inside them.

Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.