Creativity Quote by Robert McKee Download Open image “Story is about originality, not duplication” — Robert McKee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creativity Duplication Inspirational Love Originality Stories
“Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
“people don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative.” — Chester Elijah Branch Copy Share Image
One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Everyone’s got a version of the same story, or maybe there’s no such thing as the same story; it’s a different story every time.” — Karen Tei Yamashita Copy Share Image
All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they? — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality, — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters be your… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.” — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
The universal erosion of values has lead to the universal erosion of story. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story,… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The Soviet “creative intelligentsia” - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole… — Andrei Amalrik Copy Share Image
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“You are the end of beauty and creativity one must have created so far.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
