Quotes on Originality

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

He moves fastest who moves alone.

[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.