Kit Reed Quotes

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

Agents and publishers are always looking for something 'different,' a fresh viewpoint and a new voice, not just re-hashed versions of stuff that's gone before.

That's the thing about creating. When you create, you create your own thing, whatever that is. It's always going to seep through in whatever you do.

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

You can only write your own vision.

As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something new.

Originality is only variation.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I've mentioned, of course, are original, but it's important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world. And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can't really depend upon what you've done with previous books.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

Originality is really important.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

To create something you must be something.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.