Leslie Jamison Quotes

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

Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something.

Each time I sit down and write a play I try to dismiss from my mind as much as I possibly can the implications of what I've done before, what I'm going to do, what other people think about my work, the failure or success of the previous play. I'm stuck with a new reality that I've got to create.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.

No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done

People are looking for something new at the end of the day, and I think when people can do something new and unique to get people's attention, that's what is needed. There's so many people that follow the trend, and then it gets to a point where it gets a little stale. So, in music, I mean, whoever's the new trendsetter, that's who people follow.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

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

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

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

I've got nothing very original to say myself.

I think the mind should deliver new and fresh designs all the time.

The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.

I try to make things that are fresh and different, even if they are inspired by classic things.

Of course you can't do anything completely original.

I really don't want to make the same film twice, so I am conscious of going after material that is significantly different to anything I've done before.

Good films that get made are so few and far between. I want to write and direct more, but only so I can keep a fresh perspective.

Novelty always sparks ideas.

Originality will be rewarded in any line.

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.