Unconventional Viewpoints Quotes

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

I think there's great value to the Associated Press and to Reuters, but if you wanted to generate original content, maybe written by local writers, it just takes a little bit of openness to open your pages up to a wider freelance writer pool, and then you might find new voices and a wider array of voices, and definitely more original content that can't be found anywhere else.

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.

I think I have some interesting things to say and I don't think anybody out there is saying them.

You can learn a lot from children because they see things new every day. That's the beauty of what you want to achieve as an artist - seeing things in a different way. Kids are constantly saying things that are funny and surprising and their observations are just... you know, they're like little artists themselves.

I'm always looking for something new and interesting to say. And it can't be something I'm directly experiencing.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

What's important to me is offering perspectives into worlds that people don't often get to see. Do you know what I mean? From angles they don't often get to see.

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.