One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
Carolyn Heilbrun
I had great pleasure in reading a few books, but not many, preferring always those on whose style or sentiment the writer’s individual nature was plainly stamped.
Charlotte Brontë Vilette
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one’s own, it is always twenty times better.
Margaret Oliphant
Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.
Mary Chapian
I think that one reason there is so much ugly antipathy to writers who are breaking form in any way is because people know that language taps an unpredictable power source in each of us.
Susan Howe
“It’s the way of saying things, isn’t it, not the things?”
Virginia Woolf
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
Willa Cather