Sharon Creech Quotes

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

It is much easier to imitate something else that you know is accepted and loved than it is to look inside and follow your own compass, because you have no idea if you'll be accepted, if you'll be right, if your ideas are good, if your way is a path to success.

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

Things aren't interesting if you level them. It's the voice that's interesting.

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

If you don't have anything different to say, don't say it at all. That's my rule.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.

Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it.

What you really have to do, if you want to be creative, is to unlearn all the teasing and censoring that you've experienced throughout your life. If you are truly a creative person, you know that feeling insecure and lonely is par for the course. You can't have it both ways: You can't be creative and conform, too. You have to recognize that what makes you different also makes you creative.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.

Everyone takes pictures, so you need to have your own opinion.

If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

I often begin a thought with spirit and finish it with nonsense. The chain of my argument often escapes me, and when lost can seldom be retrieved. These faults are so overpowering that I should sink into perpetual silence were it not that sometimes in ardor of debate, when my feelings are wound up to a high tone, elocution pours itself along with unusual rapidity, and I have passages which would not shame a good speaker; this is the only thing that makes me tolerable to others or to myself.

Everything has been said but not everyone has yet said it.