“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