Creativity Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Voltaire

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

— Voltaire

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

— W. H. Auden

“Originality is a myth perpetuated by the naive, the romantic, and the unscrupulous.”

— Tom Robbins

“Originality' is the sickness of modernity that wishes to see itself as something new, always new, in order continually to witness its own birth.…

— Carlos Fuentes

“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

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

I think originality is something that's important and catches people's eye.

— Ella Mai

“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We…

— Anonymous

“No one has claim to originality in literature; all writers are more or less faithful amanuenses of the spirit, translators and annotators of pre-existing…

— James E. Irby