Aim Quote by W. H. Auden

Authenticity does matter, but only as it serves the novel's more traditional literary demands: that the fault lines be drawn where the internal life…

— Amitava Kumar

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

— Voltaire

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— Voltaire

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

— John Metcalf

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm…

— Lisa Scottoline

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

— Josh Billings

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

Finally and most important of all, authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else…

— Iyanla Vanzant

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 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

“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