Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Jean Cocteau
Some Similar Quotes
  1. If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write! - Jackie Collins

  2. You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped -- - Anonymous

  3. If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes. - Nikki Giovanni

  4. The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world. - Alexei Maxim Russell

  5. ...writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as a pair of worn sneakers or the air we breathe. - Andrea A. Lunsford

More Quotes By Jean Cocteau
  1. Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

  2. The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

  3. Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

  4. A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability...

  5. The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

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