Endeavor Quote by Ben Yagoda Download Open image “All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them” — Ben Yagoda ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Endeavor Good writers Sensitive Writing
Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull. And that's… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Everyone can write a cliche. What's rare is to write them often and unashamedly enough that people quote it as if it's some deep… — Jimmy Lo Copy Share Image
The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain, — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
“One has the sense of her deciding roughly at Page 2 whether or not a book is worthy; reading the rest of it to… — Ben Yagoda Copy Share Image
“designer can inject the most artistic flair. The word “ampersand” didn’t come into being until the nineteenth century. At that time & was customarily… — Ben Yagoda Copy Share Image
“Theorists of journalism have long noted parallels to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in physics: by reporting on something, one subtly but irrevocably changes it.” — Ben Yagoda Copy Share Image
“Memoir today is like one big game of misery poker: The more outlandish, outrageous, or just plain out-there the recounted life, the more likely… — Ben Yagoda Copy Share Image
Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet… — Ben Yagoda Copy Share Image
Quotes are like cayenne pepper or some other strong spice: a little goes a long way, and too much is a disaster. — Ben Yagoda Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Designing posters, for me, is not only a commercial pursuit but also a philosophical endeavor.” — Fang Chen Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
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Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electrostatic machine. Without… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones. — Lynda Obst Copy Share Image
