Christopher Hitchens Quotes

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

I think you can't help but write in your own voice.

I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

And I think I have a distinct voice.

Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.

I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

I don't want to sound like anyone.

You can't say I don't sound like a N.Y. rapper - it's because I don't wanna sound like nobody else.

I would like to be able to write in my own voice.

Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.

You got to have style, and learn to be original.

Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality.

It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your own personal way of saying things.

I didn't want to imitate anybody. Any movement I knew, I didn't want to use.

Write the poem only you can write.

Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

I don't like trends. They tend to make everybody look the same.

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

What I aspire to do, and what I try the hardest to do, is write stuff that's very personal in its way. I figure I can only say things the way I say them, so I'm trying to do something that is kind of anti-generic.

I don't aspire to be like other drivers - I aspire to be unique in my own way.

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own.

The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.

My style is all to myself.