Extreme Originality Quotes & Sayings

[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion. — Anton Chekhov

The rage was a good feeling, stronger and purer than the shame that followed, the fear and the sudden urge to run and hide, to deny, to pretend I did not know who I was and what the world would do to me. — Dorothy Allison

Bears being sent through the mail should never be squashed up to make them fit. It gives them indigestion. — Pam Brown

One of the things that should go into the writer's notebook is a set of experiments with the sentence. A convenient and challenging place to begin is with the long sentence, one that runs to at least two pages. — John Gardner

Another of the great civilizations, the Aztecs, raised a breed of hairless chihuahuas especially for eating. When the Conquistadors arrived and found dog on the menu, they were of the same opinion as Mademoiselle, that this was evidence of the worst form of barbarism. They, the Spaniards, used dogs as befits civilized and Christian men - to hunt down fugitive Indians and tear them to pieces. — Medlar Lucan

I'm dumbfounded by me all the time. Wow! What a ... thrill ... and a joy — Layne Staley

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect. — Arthur Koestler

If Peter Pan had been real, he would've gone mad and killed everyone in Neverland. — Amanda Hocking

The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself. — Aaron Allston

There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal. They should just be able to come. — Linda Ronstadt

What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter; some nearness to death; some call to courage. I myself was getting wild; I wanted wildness, originality, genius, rapture, hope. I wanted strength, not tea parties. What I sought in books was a world whose surfaces, whose people and events and days lived, actually matched the exaltation of the interior life. There you could live. — Annie Dillard

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey ... there's really no way of knowing which one you are. (p.129) — Hilary Austen

I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real. — Walt Disney

It is only through effort that works are accomplished, not through just desires. The prey won't enter into the sleeping lion's mouth of their own accord. — Anonymous

You can waste your whole life trying to be everything to everybody. Pick your passion. And let them pick theirs. — Josh Becker

Toys are made in heaven, batteries are made in hell. — Tom Robbins

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. — Joseph Brodsky

The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us. — Joseph Addison

I sing to use the Waiting
My bonnet but to tie,
And close the door unto my house
No more to do have I

'Till his best step approaching,
We journey to the day,
And tell each other how we sung
To keep the dark away. — Emily Dickinson