All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.
Michael ChabonTag: books writing originality novels cliche
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
Frank ZappaTag: originality people weird frank-zappa
Anymore, no one's mind is their own.
Chuck PalahniukTag: life originality creativity modernity
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.
Quentin CrispTag: originality creativity
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."
[MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]
Tag: imitation originality inspiration authenticity creativity creative-process rules sense-of-wonder transformation postmodernism context sources
I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.
In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics:
Plagiarize!
Plagiarize!
Let no one else's work evade your eyes!
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes!
So don't shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize -
Only be sure always to call it please 'research'."
[Lobachevsky]
Tag: originality hypocrisy research plagiarism cheating copycats
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 had."
[Commencement Speech; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999]
Tag: writing originality creativity creative-process uniqueness point-of-view
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
Marie AntoinetteTag: art originality forgetting creative new
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T.S. EliotTag: humor imitation writing originality maturity plagiarism
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
Coco ChanelTag: originality memory
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