Nick Cannon Quotes

I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is one of the biggest gifts at our disposal.

Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable.

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.

Originality will be rewarded in any line.

I always want to try to bring something fresh to every book. It's getting harder instead of easier. I feel like I work harder with each book. But I don't want it to show on the pages, that's for sure.

Originality is only variation.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

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.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

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

I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

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

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.

There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

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

I always tend to favor the newer idea.

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