originality

If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you.

Knock-offs may look good, but they never last as long as the real thing.

I would rather be a real Timex than a fake Rolex.

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.

Creativity is easy.Originality is difficult.Relevance is a bitch.

Fashion is simply a guideline for style-less people to appear stylish.

Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.

Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.

All genuinely creative ideas are initially met with rejection, since they necessarily threaten the status quo. An enthusiastic reception for a new idea is a sure sign that it is not original.

Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.

Those who say there are no more original ideas need to get out of the way of those of us who are creating them.

Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.

If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn, and were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man's soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.

Originality is the best form of rebellion.

But I should caution that if you seek to plot out all your moves before you make them__f you put your faith in slow, deliberative planning in the hopes it will spare you failure down the line__ell, you__e deluding yourself. For one thing, it__ easier to plan derivative work__hings that copy or repeat something already out there. So if your primary goal is to have a fully worked out, set-in-stone plan, you are only upping your chances of being unoriginal.

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.