Salman Rushdie Quotes

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

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

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

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

No man was ever great by imitation.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

You can't be all of the people you're influenced by, so you make your own filter and create your own beautiful, unique thing in the world. Soak up the world, man, and make something of your own.

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.

Don't imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal.

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

At the end of the day, you can't do a copy of somebody.

I like to create something that's unique and kind of true to myself and authentic and everything. I don't really like to mirror myself after different artists.

Everything I do is me. I don't like taking ideas from people unless they're the G.O.A.T.

The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.

On every new project, I try to write in a different way and see if there's a new side of myself I haven't explored.

You can’t learn your craft by copying me or anyone else. I hope what I do can do is in some way inspire others but I would be appalled if I thought my work was being studied as ‘the right way to do the job’. My way is just one of an infinite number of ways to do the job.

If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

No one ever became great by imitation.

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

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.

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.