Italian to English Art/Literary General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters Character-based fiction

The writer has been walking around the streets observing people's faces in order to find inspiration for a character to write about. He notices somebody whose head is bowed down and who seems a bit alienated from the rest of what is going on.

Forse perché era proprio come me. L’idea mi stuzzicava. Più ci pensavo e meno la consideravo assurda. Perché no. Chi aveva detto che avessi l’esclusiva? Chissà quante altre idee avevano preso il posto dei loro creatori e giravano tramortite per la città.

I can see what this is saying in a sense, but don't really know the best to word it to blend it in with the overall meaning