A Quote by Jane Gardam

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'

Jane Gardam

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Jane Gardam
English - Writer
Born: July 11, 1928

I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy. I used to sit by the record player and copy Chuck Berry and the Beatles. You can never copy someone completely, so you end up developing your own style.

Ronnie Wood

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You can't copy style, you gotta create your own.

Tatyana Ali

Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.

Bethany Cosentino

My style is unique and it's my own. I do not try to copy or imitate anybody.

Alexander Ovechkin

I've never really tried to copy anyone, I like to have my own style.

Liam Aiken

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

Liam Aiken

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

Robert Cray

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

Missy Elliott

Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

Honore de Balzac

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.

Yohji Yamamoto

I've always been into dressing nicely. My dad's really into fashion, also. We'll always go out and buy stuff. He has his own style and I have my own style, but it's a shared thing. Same thing with my grandfather; he was really into his style, so it's just sort of been passed down, I think.

Patrick Schwarzenegger

The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But every one has, in his day, been modern. And surely even modernity is a poor thing beside immortality. Since we must all die, is it not perhaps better to be a dead lion than a living dog?

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I've realized now that I just want to be myself. I don't necessarily want to wear an exact copy of something on the runway, because that's not really what style is to me.