Is it possible to say It was a beautiful morning at the end of November without feeling like Snoopy?
Up until relatively recently, creating original characters from scratch wasn't a major part of an author's job description. When Virgil wrote The Aeneid, he didn't invent Aeneas; Aeneas was a minor ch...
(n.) The quality or state of being original.
Creativity is easy.Originality is difficult.Relevance is a bitch.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
If everybody likes you, you are doing it wrong.
Knock-offs may look good, but they never last as long as the real thing.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
Creativity is the ability to produce ideas that are both original and valuable.
I would rather be a real Timex than a fake Rolex.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Anymore, no one's mind is their own.
I invent nothing. I rediscover.
The best way to be original is to not copy anyone.
The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the senten...
But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.
Utter originality is of course out of the question.
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.
When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced and partakes of the nature of a protest.