Lisa Jewell Quotes

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.

What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new and interesting ways.

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

I always make sure that every film of mine has some element of freshness to it.

With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have a new experience, and by extension, I want my readers to have a different experience.

I think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You can't be thinking about such things when you create something.

You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original.

If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.

There is no point in playing safe, because the audiences love different quirks: something that is crazy and out-of-the-box. I think that's what my space is, and if you are going to have your own space in the industry, this is where I want to be.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

Originality is only variation.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.