Neil Gaiman Quotes

To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.

Finally and most important of all, authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the same courtesy. There was a time I wanted to be like every famous writer that ever lived. I tried to copy styles, reframe information, use similar artwork. I almost drove myself crazy! Now I just do what I do. I have mentors. There are people whose work I admire, but I write the way I write. I eat the way I eat. I dress the way I dress. I can't believe that God made us each so unique only to have us do everything the same way.

Find your own style, whatever it is. Whatever is inside you, bring that out. I think that's when you have something unique.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you.

Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.

Style means you have a real curiosity about yourself and then you express it. Having style is not copying somebody else.

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

Be original. The world will try to fit you into a mold, but carve your own path.

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own.

Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it—or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings.

It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.

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

And I think I have a distinct voice.

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

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

My style is all to myself.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.