Robert Adamson Quotes

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

The world needs more standardization, less innovation.

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.

Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future.

We have no precedents to guide us, and that is a glorious thing, for precedents, like other guides are disposed to grow tyrannical and refuse to let us do anything on our own initiative. Life grows wearisome in the countries where precedents and conventionality is rule and nothing can happen unless it has happen before.

You don't want to try to recreate something you've already done.

Who wants to see the same play again? I certainly don't want to write the same play again and again.

You're not going to reinvent the wheel every time you go out, because that would disappoint the audience.

I have a hatred of familiarity. If I feel like I am doing something I've done before, it feels old and done. I feel I have no choice but to strike out in directions that feel new - anything less just doesn't seem worth it.

We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are.

I wouldn't want to go see a comedian if he was using the same jokes. So I'm not going out there trying to do the same thing that and my body's changed, my life's changed and really if people have already seen me do something a 1,000 times, 1,001 is not going to impress anybody.