Five Great Quotations about Originality

“The writer’s genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer’s only stuff for sale.” – James Gunn

“When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.” – Blaise Pascal

“Make it new.” – Ezra Pound

“When you take stuff from one writer, it’s plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it’s research.” – William Mizner

“Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.” – James F. Stephan

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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past 15 years, I’ve helped more than 350 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the 7 Minutes a Day… writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.

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