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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."
"Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that oddity was our advantage."
"Originals cost more than imitations."
"I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already beenthought before me by another."
"There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands."
"No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted."
"No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original."
"Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar."
"It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves."
"The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels."
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"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over."
"Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in."
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