“I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.” ThinkingWayWritingBelieveCharacterAbleI BelieveMy OwnAttitudeStyleEventsOriginalsWork OutAffectedGood Writers Author:Margaret Mahy
“My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.” KnowsWritingMeanRealWould BeSongMy OwnOriginalsMy FavoriteTunesFavorite SongFavorite Music Author:Paul McDonald
“I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush.” PeopleThinkingWritingBookWholeArtistShadowOriginalsCastsFoundersPaintbrush Author:Todd McFarlane
“I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.” WantWritingHumansEvilWrittenConditionsSucceedOriginalsStriveHuman ConditionAmbitiousNature Of Evil Author:Jo Nesbo
“It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.” WritingFirstsWantedStuffStepsOriginalsFirst StepsVeinsMisfits Author:Gerald Caiafa
“Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.” WritingI CanHardBitsPercentOriginalsSeventies Author:Mike Rutherford
“When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.” PeopleKnowsWritingFirstsStoriesHandsSituationCenturyOriginalsFamiliarNineteenth Century Book:Satyajit Ray: Interviews Source: Satyajit Ray: Interviews
“But once an original book has been written - and no more than one or two appear in a century - men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language.” MenShouldWritingHas BeensTwoBookDifferentUseAbleCoursesLanguageWrittenCenturyLettersOriginalsTitlesThemeCopiesApesImitatorUse Of Language Book:Planet of the Apes Source: Planet of the Apes
“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
“I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.” WritingStoriesPoliticalOriginalsUnexpectedRealisingUnexpected PlacesPolitical Writing Author:Denise Mina
“By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy” WritingMeanSongChurchGenerationsCrazyOriginalsNeglectNew Songs Author:N. T. Wright
“Most programs are not write-once. They are reworked and rewritten again and again in their lived. Bugs must be debugged. Changing requirements and the need for increased functionality mean the program itself may be modified on an ongoing basis. During this process, human beings must be able to read and understand the original code. It is therefore more important by far for humans to be able to understand the program than it is for the computer.” NeedsWritingHumansMayMeanImportantAbleProcessHuman BeingsComputerProgramBasesOriginalsCodeAgain And AgainRequirementsBugsOngoingFunctionality Author:Yukihiro Matsumoto
“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.” MenWritingLiteratureCapableOriginalsStealingEntitledDiscretionPlagiarism Book:Essays and Lectures Source: Essays and Lectures
“Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.” WritingTryingFirstsBookReadingDifficultOriginalsTradeProductionsDestroyingDaringBooks And ReadingGreat Author Author:Andre Maurois
“I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device.” WritingSchoolFilmHigh SchoolOriginalsScriptsTitlesDevicesKillersInsectsBugsSurveillanceThrillers Author:Wes Craven
“I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.” WantShouldWritingPlayTogetherOriginalsMusicalCollections Author:Neil Gaiman
“As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers.” KnowsWritingYearsWrittenCriticismOriginalsCriticalConsistentlyStressedCharterFramersAmerican Leadership Author:John Bolton