Books Quote by Umberto Eco

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the…

— Anonymous

You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original.

— Rickey Medlocke

“To be original is not creating your own idea; it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind.”

— Kaela Marooney

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Most "original" ideas aren't completely original, but instead are the result of two basic methods for generating ideas: problems in search of solutions and…

— Barry Nalebuff

Don't recreate something that's already been created and is good. You want to have an idea, think of different idea. Don't think of someone…

— Peter Molyneux

Originality is always a strange thing. There's nothing original anymore. It's all something based on something in some way - even if it's not…

— Nick Damici

I feel like at this point in the world of just creating anything, you're not going to be able to create anything new. I…

— Giveon

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.

— Nicholas Sparks

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

— Joyce Carol Oates

[Writing something original from scratch], the initial process is way different. But once it exists and you start to actually work on making it…

— Zack Snyder

It is always possible to create something original.

— George Gershwin