You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
Read something no one else is reading, think something no one else is thinking, and do something no one else is doing.
We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.