Elsa Maxwell Quotes

I like to do something different that people don't expect. That's what I've always been about, in everything I do.

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

We have no precedents to guide us, and that is a glorious thing, for precedents, like other guides are disposed to grow tyrannical and refuse to let us do anything on our own initiative. Life grows wearisome in the countries where precedents and conventionality is rule and nothing can happen unless it has happen before.

I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I want every book to be unpredictable and new. Damn it!

I have a hatred of familiarity. If I feel like I am doing something I've done before, it feels old and done. I feel I have no choice but to strike out in directions that feel new - anything less just doesn't seem worth it.

I want to do something that people have not seen before... surprise everyone. There has to be variety in work.

It's important to be unconventional.

It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.

We are a little out of the box.

Obvious is not my forte. I take a left turn right when everybody thinks I'm going to go straight.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

The most successful people are so original.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

My sensibilities are like, 'I want it to be weirder.'

People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.