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"The most important trait of a writer is an authentic voice. Writers have to have faith in their own voice, and their own way of doing things. Originality is the gem that every writer possesses. Originality also brings on the most merciless attacks. The world resents originality in the beginning writer, and then rewards it abundantly once that writer has been successfully published. Cherish your own voice. Don't try to sound like anybody else. Sound like yourself and take the slings and arrows and keep going."
"Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple."
"She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before."
"Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism."
"Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality."
"Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar."
"Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with."
"Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin."
"The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels."
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"Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them."
"Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile."
"My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time."
"Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!"
"I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater."
"I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter."
"People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation."
"For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends."
"I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing."
"I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself."
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