Quote

I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me.

Well I think always, when you remake films, I always think the first one is most original, authentic.

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.

Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.

I prefer writing originals.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.