Creativity Quote by James Stephens

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

— Philip Larkin

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

— Ezra Pound

Originality doesn't consist of saying it first, originality consists of saying it in a way that is specifically tailored to the moment in which…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth…

— C. S. Lewis

I've got nothing very original to say myself.

— A. N. Wilson

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from…

— Brenda Ueland

Originality is merely an illusion.

— Anonymous

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

— John Stuart Mill

Originality is in the eye of the beholder.

— Mason Cooley

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

— Marianne Moore

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson