Quotes about Originality

Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.

Wanting to sound like other people has its temptations. There are inherited habits of speech guaranteed to make us sound authoritative, intelligent, worldly, appropriately grateful, or deeply moved.

I say, enhance what others might deem less than wow and make that your beauty mark.

If you try to follow everyone else and be like everyone else, before you know it you're gone. You're not going to find yourself again; you'll just be a version of what you might have hoped to have been.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.

A writer] should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, they will succeed.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice - if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

Being myself is what got me to where I am.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.