Derivative Quotes

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else.

I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together.

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.

At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.