Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

They're all true - the cliches like 'one day at time' and 'ups and downs.'

— Phil Elverum

When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem to apply.

— Dan Savage

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

— Daryl Hall

Don't avoid the cliches - they are cliches because they work!

— George Lucas

about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.

— Khaled Hosseini

“You're not being fair," I said. "Life isn't fair." "Yeah, and no man is an island. Any other cliches you'd like to share?”

— Cecily White

People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.

— Steve Coogan

I just like cliches. I like tvtropes.com. It's pretty much my bible.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

I try my best to not just avoid cliches but to write with some meaning.

— Amanda Shires

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.

— Jack Nicholson

Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on…

— William Safire

If you're someone who genuinely believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history…

— Joss Whedon

Like the plague, opioids kill the young, the old, the healthy, the sick, the virtuous and the sinful.

— Eric Greitens

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

— Daniel Berrigan