Anathema Quote by Thomas M. Disch

The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.

— Andrea Hirata

“Readers have some peculiar notions about the status of writers, the most foolish of which is that writers are treated like royalty by their…

— Reed Farrel Coleman

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

— Josh Billings

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

I'm someone who speaks my mind, so it was important to me that my publisher value originality and creative expression.

— Ava Max

“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

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

— W. H. Auden

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon

“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

“Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.”

— Michelle M. Pillow