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“The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.”

Writing Mean Desire Consciousness Source Primaries Peculiar Originality Primary Source

Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality.”

Should Writing Would Be Missing Originality

Author:Raymond Radiguet

“Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.”

Writing Virtue Distinction Originality Publishers Anathema

Book:The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World

Source: The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World

“Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest, Like myself, however small, Like myself, or not at all.”

Ifs Writing Might Originality

Book:Blackberries picked off many bushes, by D. Pollex and others, put in a basket [verse, really written] by W. Allingham

Source: Blackberries picked off many bushes, by D. Pollex and others, put in a basket [verse, really written] by W. Allingham