Elizabeth Berg Quotes

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

I'm a guy that appreciates spontaneity and a woman being genuine and different.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it.

We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's all a question of what your own thumbprint, your own DNA, is, and what it brings to the table that makes it unique.

I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

I don't even really try to do something different. I just do what's authentic to me.

I hope that the things that I sing about will be an inspiration for people to be original.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

One must not imitate what one wants to create.

Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way.

It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.

I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.