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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed from one another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We…

— Voltaire

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

— Voltaire

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

— Voltaire

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people...”

— William Gaddis

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Originality is a myth perpetuated by the naive, the romantic, and the unscrupulous.”

— Tom Robbins

“To be original is not creating your own idea; it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind.”

— Kaela Marooney

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

— Jim Jarmusch

Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

— Voltaire

“I want to debunk the myth that originality requires extreme risk taking and persuade you that originals are actually far more ordinary than we…

— Adam M. Grant

“No one has claim to originality in literature; all writers are more or less faithful amanuenses of the spirit, translators and annotators of pre-existing…

— James E. Irby