The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
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.
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
We've all forgotten how to be original.
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.