#original

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#life #may #orderly #original #regular

If they haven't heard it before it's original. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#haven #heard #original

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#originality #plagiarizing #something #unfamiliar #usually

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#exciting #new #original #something #up

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#being #being yourself #box #i #original

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#born #both #could #happened #like

I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#beautifully #because #done #eccentric #fabulous

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#about #affected #attitudes #believe #came

It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#certainly #change #characters #develop #happen

If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#creators #good #interesting #like #make