originality, n.All

Originality is, for the poet, not contained in the originality of the incident itself or in his presence at its moment of emergence, but in his way of telling it.

Originality is considered perilously close to lunacy in the provinces.

Originality is not a man with a new story but a man who tells one of the world's great stories again and tells it better.

Originality is, along with creativity, nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved.

Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

Originality is more profoundly imitative. Originality returns to the origins of literature... radicalism returns to its roots.

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

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.