“An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.” WritingIdeasMightNovelCreatingOriginals Author:Umberto Eco
“Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.” IgnoranceReaderCreatingOriginalsCunningIlluminationHeadingsTrickery Author:Alberto Manguel
“Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful thing to make something out of nothing. You've got an empty page, you've got an idea, and then you start typing and that is the most thrilling thing of all. And then if it becomes a movie or something else that's a plus, but the original writing of it is what's very exciting.” IfsWritingIdeasWonderfulCreatingPagesEmptyBasesExcitingOriginalsPlusWonderful ThingsThrillingTypingCreating Something Author:Carl Reiner
“The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating, writing words that are his own and not his own, writing a work not original to him, composing with utmost pains and without recognition of his pains or the fact that the composition really is his own.” WorldWritingFactsPainFormLiteratureCreatingOriginalsGhostRecognitionPeculiarCompositionComposingOutcastTranslatorsWriting Words Author:Lydia Davis
“The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.” DoneStoriesTelevisionCreatingOriginalsFantasticRepeatsMikeScully Author:Matt Groening
“Everyday we just copy&paste ourselves from the previous day instead of creating a new blank page and be something different and original.” DifferentCreatingPagesOriginalsEverydayCopiesBlankBlank Pages Author:Marcelo Goianira
“I'll continue to act when the roles are available, and when I get offered something. But creating original content on my YouTube channel and not having to go through networks or studios, the freedom you have to just do it online, I'm never giving that up.” GivingRolesCreatingOriginalsStudiosAvailableOnlineYoutubeJust Do It Author:Reagan Gomez-Preston
“You have to be original. The people creating a buzz on YouTube are taking risks, and they're doing something different. I like it when 15 year-olds come on and tell me what to do rather than the other way around.” PeopleWayYearsDifferentRiskCreatingOriginalsYoutubeTaking RisksBuzz Author:Simon Cowell
“There are some - called 'death fatigue' - people who just grow so tired of death, so they don't want to keep perpetuating death and creating more victims and more anger and more pain. They want to heal from that, and I think that's exactly what God wants to do. And, interestingly enough, that's part of what God's original law was doing with the 'eye for an eye' thing. It was actually to limit the patterns of retaliation and then to begin to heal from that.” PeopleThinkingWantEnoughEyePainLawGrowsLimitsCreatingOriginalsVictimTiredPatternsHealFatigueRetaliationPerpetuatingEye For An Eye Author:Shane Claiborne
“If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.” IfsIdeasDepressionCreatingInnovationOriginalsBetrayedOriginal IdeasIdeas And CreativityIdeas And InnovationPower Of IdeasBeing OriginalBeing Betrayed Book:The Courage to Create Source: The Courage to Create
“Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.” PeopleKnowsWorldWellsLooksIdeasCreatingOriginalsSticksMessParadiseGet AwayAway From YouOriginal Ideas Book:The Secret Life of Bees Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“Insist upon yourself. Be original.” CreatingOriginalsOriginalityFunny Basketball Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations” PersonsUseIndividualCreationExpressionCreatingCapableOriginalsInstrumentsIndividualityContraryBelongingGesturesIncarnation Author:Milan Kundera
“The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.” MindFormInformationCreatingOriginalsActiveFamiliarSomething NewConventionalPassiveTransformingConsuming Book:Mastery Source: Mastery