The word for 'banal' should be replaced every five years…

“There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal"…

— Anna Quindlen

“There isn't any real you in you," she says, "Even your physical body, all your cells will be replaced within eight years.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and…

— Rachel Joyce

How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.

— David Foster

There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained…

— Kate Braverman

I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

— Anne Michaels

“In an art museum, you shall realise how banal and how ordinary the life outside!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

— Milton Glaser

There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.

— Edward Abbey

People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate.…

— James Gleick

“There seemed no particular object in avoiding banality from the start, as the evening showed every sign of developing into a banal one.”

— Anthony Powell

It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all…

— Henry Miller

The Twenty20 is itself a banal game, a crude game, but it works, so I hope Twenty20 commentary works.

— Jonathan Agnew

“If any woman opens her legs for you, don't feel so lucky to be fed with nonsense, she has been a bitch for a…

— Michael Bassey Johnson