Quotes about Originality

If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something new is almost an impossible task.

I couldn't be a Taylor Swift. I would really suck at being Taylor Swift.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

Mr. Harrison was certainly different from other people…and that is the essential characteristic of a crank, as everybody knows.

She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself.

If you please, Great-Aunt Nancy, said Emily deliberately, I don't like to be told I look like other people. I look just like myself.

But would you believe it? I couldn't remember one word when I woke up this morning. And I'm afraid I'll never be able to think out another one as good. Somehow, things never are so good when they're thought out a second time. Have you ever noticed that?

Niyeyse, bir ÅŸeyi ikinci kez düÅŸündüÄŸünüzde asla ilki kadar iyi olmuyor. Hiç bunu fark?na varm?? m?yd?n?z?

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path... It sees no distinction in adding story to story... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it...