#originality

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#cliche #novels #originality #writing #influence

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #creativity #disagreeable #envy #intimidating

Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#criminals #degeneration #enterprise #originality #pencils

Originality is the best form of rebellion. ↗

— Mike Sasso

#originality #protest #rebellion #life

Originality is really important. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#originality #really

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#cinema #cost #culture #harm #losing

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#art form #concern #essential #form #language

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#examinations #go #great #great success #naturally

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#mistakes #only #originality #universal

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#originality #plagiarizing #something #unfamiliar #usually