Edith Wharton Quotes About Originality

Quotes about: Originality

• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

  Edith Wharton

  Vision, Literature, Originality

  Edith Wharton (2014). “The Writing of Fiction”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.

  Edith Wharton

  Wealth Of Knowledge, Long, Mind

• Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them." Mark Twain "...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

  Edith Wharton

  Lying, People, Firsts

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