About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
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Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours kindle it at home communicate it to others and it becomes the property of all.
What a good thing Adam had - when he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
All cases are unique and very similar to others.
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
I invent nothing. I rediscover.
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.
We do not inherit this land from our ancestors we borrow it from our children.
Originality is the art of concealing your sources.
All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Riding hard for glory.
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves.
Utter originality is of course out of the question.
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
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."; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999]