Originality Quotes

“I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.”

“The essential thing is to have something to say, and to say it in a way that is your own.”

“The first thing we do, let's kill all the clichés.”

“All writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart.”

“Originality in science is the discovery of new propositions that are true.”

“Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.”

“It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, thoughts, and deeds of others.”

“You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?”

“Originality is undetected plagiarism.”

“I got a style that's impossible to copy.”

“Originality, I am afraid, is too often only undetected and unconscious plagiarism.”

“I'm always looking for a story that's not been told, a character that's not been seen.”

“It's always better to be an original than a copy.”

“Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.”

“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have borrowed in a new light.”

“There is an original in every man.”

“The most important thing is to make a movie that is not a copy of something else. To be original.”

“This is a love story that feels as if it were made by people who'd never seen a love story, and were all the better for it.”

“We do not wish to copy nature. We do not want to reproduce, we want to produce. We want to produce as a plant produces a fruit, and not reproduce.”

“Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.”