Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day.

Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.

One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.

In a sense, if you're not getting it wrong really a lot when you're creating imaginary futures, then you're just not doing it enough. You're not creating enough imaginary futures.

The goal is to make something that sounds new and different.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.