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Quotes About Novelty

It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to write about.
~ Harvey Pekar
People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.
~ Lauren Beukes
The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.
~ Mason Cooley
The reason I start a novel is because there's something that excites me and I want to explore it.
~ Ned Beauman
He'd only just met her, he told himself, as though the newness and novelty was the explanation for his unusual feelings. Or perhaps he was simply overreacting to her rare innocence and highly sensual nature. That combination didn't come into his life every day. There. A sensible explanation for his sharp-set craving. A logical reason for not being able to walk away. With time though, he'd have his fill. He always did.
~ Susan Johnson
A world without boredom would be dull.
~ Susan Maushart
Things have been happening so quickly that I haven't been able to think them through. Which always makes me a little nervous. Not that anything like this has ever happened to me before.
~ Susanna Moore
I don't think I could have just kept writing the 'Richard Jury' books. It wasn't that I was bored or dissatisfied. I just had to write something else.
~ Martha Grimes
I want people to say that I'm something new, something different. Something they've never seen before.
~ Trae Young
You can't just be a rock star by rehashing things you've seen or done before. Bring something new, which is what hip-hop does best.
~ John Gourley
Gamers both demand and deserve novelty. They need something new. As a game developer, one of my rules is there will be at least one thing in every game that I worked on that no one on the planet has seen before.
~ Warren Spector
I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.
~ Sylvia Robinson
Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.
~ Adam Lambert
I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.
~ Meshell Ndegeocello
I realized I had something new to say, something that wasn't already out there.
~ Joseph Abboud
Every day, you try something new. So I just try to keep myself healthy physically and nutritionally.
~ Krysten Ritter
For me, just getting to experience something new all the time is what's most exciting for me.
~ Drew Scott
Something new has the chance to speak to someone immediately. There isn't this expectation of what they're about to hear, so people can be really captivated, really quickly.
~ Hilary Hahn
When you're doing an album, you need to come up with something new, be creative.
~ Ginuwine
I think for a lot of people, when you're starting something new, everyone is so excited about it.
~ Angela Yee
Personally, I like narrating stories that revolve around something new. I'd find it very boring otherwise.
~ Sudha Kongara
Some people come to a restaurant because they want to have something new all the time.
~ Paul Wahlberg
It's good for you to go somewhere that you wouldn't normally go.
~ Stephen Root
Sooner barbarity than boredom.
~ Theophile Gautier