393 Quotes About Originality

People were always guessing like that, categorizing me as one thing or another, but Mr. Locke assured me they were all equally incorrect. “A perfectly unique specimen,” he called me.

Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy. Truth always rises with time.

Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

I don't mind people marching to the beat of a different drummer, so long as that drummer plays standard march tempo of 120 BPM.

I need not adapt in certain ways. I am in fact but a visitor to this world, an ephemeral gasp within its long, tired history, and, before anything else, a follower of Christ. By this alone I have the power not to shuffle away from the Faith, the power to break loose from these marching-shackles of ongoing cultural and political pretense.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

You will never write like your favorite author, unless god hates you or something.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.