Character Quote by Margaret Mahy

I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.

— Errol Morris

Wherever I go in the world, people all know about Scotland Street and are always asking me about what's going to happen to the…

— Alexander McCall Smith

There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if…

— Salma Hayek

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or…

— Margaret Fuller

Essayists must not only be succinct but have original ideas and, even harder to come by, or to fake, likable voices. Consciously or not,…

— Cyra McFadden

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

— Nicholas Sparks

Back then, when I had that original idea to write about the seventeenth century, the whole thing was set in 1666. I was thinking…

— Danielle Dutton

Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see…

— Abigail Washburn

Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of…

— Edith Head

“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

If you come up with the original idea on your laptop, anything else is an embellishment of that idea. It's nice to have the…

— Hudson Mohawke

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own…

— Oscar Wilde