Malcolm McDowell Quotes

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.

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

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.

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

It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.

Originality is only variation.

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

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

I don't want to repeat myself. I hate the idea of coasting and of recycling the same ideas. Then, you're just subject to the law of diminishing returns.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before. As if I'm literally the first person to ever write a book.

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.

Doing something different, doing something original is always fun because there is a lot of creativity that comes with it.

When you make something that everyone likes, it's very easy to say, "Well, I'll just repeat that." Because that was easy. I have a formula. But creatively, it's not very interesting.

Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I've mentioned, of course, are original, but it's important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world. And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can't really depend upon what you've done with previous books.

I'm not original, but I strive toward it as much as possible. I tried really hard on Weekend Update to do something that I considered original, which was, I tried to cut all cleverness out of the joke.

Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable.

Originality is a return to the origin.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.