Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
Stay unknown until you know what you want to be known for.#StokesNotes
(n.) The quality or state of being original.
A poor original is better than a good imitation.
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
Stand up.Stand out.Stand firm.Stand strong.
Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.
They say copying is a form of flattery, I say it's lack of originality.
When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free-fall toward a grand reunion with your original self.
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.
The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.
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 ev...
I invent nothing. I rediscover.
I would rather be a real Timex than a fake Rolex.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world’s store of ideas which had always ex...
Utter originality is of course out of the question.
Curious that it is impossible for a man to be original without attracting around him a set of unoriginal minds, as though he were a honey-pot and they the flies!
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.