Are you so arrogant to think that everything you write is 100% original?

Answer 1

Yes I am.
Aside from the usual Kafkaesque twist, it's all mine!

Ok, no.

There can be no such thing as a thought unthought.
Someone, somewhere has thought up, dreamt, or hallucinated the same thing you think is so original.
It's all been done.

The key, i think, is to take what you see combine it, melt it, and if possible distort it so much that its not even recognizable.

Everyone had influences, just as Poe, just as Shakespeare must have had. Just as the Romans and the Greeks did.
Of course, in the beginning, they were just as lost as the rest of us.

Remember, "The key to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

Answer 2

This very notion drives me crazy when I'm writing papers for school. I mean, all of my professors go on and on about plagiarism, but none of them has an answer when I ask them this question. When can we ever really call an idea our own? If we gave credit for everything we've acquired from some other source, every sentence would have multiple citations. I mean, after one has lived long enough, s/he gains a certain level of experience, hopefully has read a great deal and has engaged in meaningful dialogue. Ideas don't just *poof* into existence. Even ideas that seem to come out of nowhere have inspiration... and I guess I do believe there is nothing new under the sun; there is only reconfiguration.

Answer 3

No one living today can write some 100% original unless they created a new language and wrote a story about some new invention of theirs or their new language because other wise you would say stuff like hi, bye, he, she, mom, or dad. Also if you can thing of it it has most likely already been wrote on paper and published. You know what I mean.

Answer 4

If words are like music notes, a lot can be done with them. Just look a E lucevan le stelle from Tosca; " E lucevan le stelle, e olezzava la terra stridea l'uscio dell'orto e un passo sfiorava la arena. Entrava ella fragrante, mi cadea fra le braccia." is all sung on only three of four notes; the first phrase on one note, the second on another........yet it is incredible beautiful, even though those notes had been used before many times, but never like that.

Answer 5

Well first, I'd like to take your question apart a bit.
"Arrogant?"

OK, moving along...

I read what everyone else has written (I hate duplication of thought and effort and time) and nobody mentioned God.

I think originality is God. It pains me to say this but this is the absolute ideal. Like Plato, I believe the absolute knowledge, the absolute creativity, can only come from God.

We are his earthly artists. (And that's where Plato and I come to swords.)

Answer 6

No..i know that the words come from me. So they are mine. But they are always inspired by others. My poem "Standing Here" was inspired by Creed: With Arms Wide Open, "Saving Grace" was inspired by a Tobymac Song, etc.

I look to others for my insperation. No one can truely write a work of their own that isn't inspired or "affected" by others. I'm not arrogant. But i do know that there are some people who are. I know that although my works are of my own creation and building. I've always had help with them.

Good question...hope i helped(if that's possible)

Answer 7

Nothing I write or anyone else writes is 100% original b/c we get inspiration through other things, therefore we owe credit to someone or something.

Answer 8

Someones writing had to be 100% original, or else there would be nothing for us writers to draw it from. And, most are original, most people draw their writing from their experiences in life.

Answer 9

No. Everything a person writes comes from knowledge they learned as a child or adult. This means they've learned it from someone else and it is possible that another person who has learned the same thing from the same person can be writing the same thing as them. Confusing, I know...but nothing's original.

Answer 10

"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal." - Pablo Picasso.

"I steal from everything. Great artists steal, they don't do homages." - Quentin Tarantino.

"I'm the richest man on Earth!" - Bill Gates (who stole visual OS from Apple after Apple stole it from Xerox).

So no, I do not think that everything I write is 100% original. However, I do try to steal from the best.