Unique Writing Quotes

It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing.

I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.

Kelly Link is inimitable. Her stories are like nothing else, dark yet sparkling with her unique brand of fairy dust. This is the most marvelous kind of trouble to get in.

Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.

It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it.

Certainly not every reader has liked every one of my books, but I think that's a good thing because it means I'm not repeating myself.

No one can write like Cheryl Strayed.

Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation resembles no book I've read before. If I tell you that it's funny, and moving, and true; that it's as compact and mysterious as a neutron; that it tells a profound story of love and parenthood while invoking (among others) Keats, Kafka, Einstein, Russian cosmonauts, and advice for the housewife of 1896, will you please simply believe me, and read it?

Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. … The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one else could have written.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

To be a classic, a novel should be original.

Aaron Sorkin uses a lot of the same people again and again - the people he likes. I think if there's ever a part for me, he would consider me for it. I hope so. Sometimes familiarity breeds contempt, other times it helps you. It's just amazing to work with his scripts. There's never any fat in them. It's all perfect, and there's such a rhythm to it. The musicality of his writing - it's so specific and unique to him, and such a joy to play as an actor, because there's no sentimentality.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

Every writer must find a way of writing that tells the reader: This is me and no one else. The Voice can be idiosyncratic, but it cannot be obscure. It is a blend of style and content and intent and rhythm and pure personality.