Famous quotes containing the words original and/or creator:
“The history of literature—take the net result of Tiraboshi, Warton, or Schlegel,—is a sum of a very few ideas, and of very few original tales,—all the rest being variation of these.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I became, and remain, my characters’ close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)