Jason Gann Quotes

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 always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

Live shows have been going on for so long, can you really do something that's never been done before?

I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.

New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.

When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.

I look for people who have a slightly different perspective and are trying to move the needle a little bit and push boundaries.

I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses.

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

There are so many different ways to make art. And so many good stories. You don't have to have a budget. I feel like it's super possible these days for people to make anything, no matter who you are or where you come from. And that's really exciting. I'm excited to see people around me pushing boundaries in that way, not letting certain structures define them or what art they can make.

I'm always surprised when you do something very different that people don't get behind you more, because you're always told, "Take chances! Stretch!" And when you do it, sometimes people get really supportive and excited, but sometimes people go at you because you've tossed out the formula.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one What counts is whether the novelty he or she produces is accepted for inclusion in the domain.