Arrogant Quote by Natalie Goldberg

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

So writing is not just writing. It is also having a relationship with other writers. And don't be jealous, especially secretly. That's the worst…

— Natalie Goldberg

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

Why do people make a fuss over people copying them when they copy other people too. There's no such thing as being original.

— Anonymous

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

“The most important trait of a writer is an authentic voice. Writers have to have faith in their own voice, and their own way…

— Anne Rice

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

Never try to copy other writers, and never try to have a formula. It has to come from your heart and soul.

— Elizabeth Berg

“While I do see lots of repetitious writing among authors, that does not apply to all, and certainly not to me. Average minds think…

— Calvin W. Allison

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

— Voltaire

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka