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“It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.”

Men Writing Literature Capable Originals Stealing Entitled Discretion Plagiarism

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.”

World Spiritual Romance Literature Sound Interest Originals Profound Conceited World Literature

Author:Baldur von Schirach

“You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it lies with the teller, not the tale.”

Ifs Knows Believe Lying Literature I Believe Originals I Believe In Tales Originality

Author:William Monahan

“Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.”

Two Hands Literature Class Genius Originals Medicine Depth Nonsense Divided Second Hand Quacks Erudition

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“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.”

World Writing Facts Pain Form Literature Creating Originals Ghost Recognition Peculiar Composition Composing Outcast Translators Writing Words

Author:Lydia Davis

“What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.”

Thinking Wells Art Real Political Artist Literature Risk Intellectual Originals Works Of Art Highlights Political Courage

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.”

Poetry Literature Process Reader Originals Composition Foreground

Book:The Language of Inquiry

Source: The Language of Inquiry

“Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them is to confuse the thought with the expression of the thought. The cliche is immediately perceivable; the commonplace very often escapes notice if decked out in original dress. There are few examples, in any literature, of new ideas expressed in original form. The most critical mind must often be content with one or the other of these pleasures, only too happy when it is not deprived of both at once, which is not too rarely the case.”

Ifs Mind Ideas Form Spirit Literature Pleasure Cases Example Expression Letters Originals Dresses Critical Substance New Ideas Deprived Cliche Commonplace Often Is

Author:Remy de Gourmont

“It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.”

Evil Literature Healthy Truth Is Benefits Originals Remains Errors Forgotten Glorious Doom

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.”

Values Found Literature Religious Special Originals Scripture Artistic Chinese Indian Prose Sublime Monument Hebrew Persian Religious Values Special Beauty

Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.”

Literature Danger Originals Comic Hammers Mike

Author:Mickey Spillane

“The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.”

Ideas Real Turns Literature Water Originals Wine Mediocrity Antichrist Original Ideas Anti Christ

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today.”

Today Literature Interest Influence Modern Originals Myth Thinker Surveys Modern Literature

Author:Charles Simic

“The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.”

Ifs Writing Ideas Reason Literature Felt Equal Originals Diminish Sequels

Author:Dean Koontz

“The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.”

Love Passion Literature Originals Resistance Duration

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”

Source: Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life

“We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.”

Stills Literature Stones Originals Teeth Rolling Rolling Stones Idolized

Book:My Teenage Son's Goal in Life Is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old: and Other Thoughts on Parenting from Dave Barry

Source: My Teenage Son's Goal in Life Is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old: and Other Thoughts on Parenting from Dave Barry

“A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.”

Made Literature Individual Society Capable Originals Capability Originality Frantic Unendurable Original Thought

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.”

Use Literature Language Originals Method Ancient Misunderstood

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.”

Writing Two Book Literature Differences Results Six Pages Hundred Originals Eight Editing Rewriting

Book:Elie Wiesel: Conversations

Source: Elie Wiesel: Conversations

“Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete.”

People Has Beens Age Literature Effort Divine Poet Originals Average Our Time Divinity Originality Concrete Founders Abstraction

Book:Prose works 1892

Source: Prose works 1892

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