Books Quote by Jane Gardam

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

— Liam Aiken

Ive never really tried to copy anyone, I like to have my own style.

— Liam Aiken

“The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upwards, take an interest, believe to be natural,…

— Charlotte Brontë

Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write,…

— Bruce Robinson

My goal is never to copy. Create a new style.

— Tamara de Lempicka

We always worry that we are copying someone else, that we don't have our own style. Don't worry. Writing is a communal act. Contrary…

— Natalie Goldberg

read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the…

— P. D. James

Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

— Ngaio Marsh

“The reason to copy your heroes and their style is so that you might somehow get a glimpse into their minds. That's what you…

— Austin Kleon

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

— Anonymous

You can't copy style, you gotta create your own.

— Tatyana Ali

You're born an original, don't die a copy: be yourself not someone else. Be yourself because an original is worth more than a copy.

— Anonymous