Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

In the era we came up in, you had to have your own thing.

Finally and most important of all, authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the same courtesy. There was a time I wanted to be like every famous writer that ever lived. I tried to copy styles, reframe information, use similar artwork. I almost drove myself crazy! Now I just do what I do. I have mentors. There are people whose work I admire, but I write the way I write. I eat the way I eat. I dress the way I dress. I can't believe that God made us each so unique only to have us do everything the same way.

My game is me. I didn't try to pattern my game after nobody.

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.

I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.

There have been comparisons but I don't want to be compared with anyone. I want to be myself, with my own style and identity.

I don't follow trends, so I make my own.

The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.

Bring individuality into things, do not just be an imitator. To imitate is to miss life.

A genius is the one most like himself.

My style is unique and it's my own. I do not try to copy or imitate anybody.

Everybody is completely different. I think there is no formula for filmmaking. Everybody finds their own way of doing things.

Be original. The world will try to fit you into a mold, but carve your own path.

The Babe is one fellow, and I'm another and I could never be exactly like him. I don't try, I just go on as I am in my own right.

Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

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

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

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

I have a trend of my own.

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

No man was ever great by imitation.

I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.