Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
I don't tend to be a nitpicker when I'm watching movies, so as long as something is true to the spirit of the original, that's very much what we got for. You try to never do something that the original author wouldn't have done themselves.
If you're trying to write something that you don't understand and embrace at the very core of you, it's not going to turn out with quite the authenticity and passion it should have.
Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.
Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.
The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.