Clich S Quotes

43 quotes by 43 authors

• The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés. — H. L. Mencken
• The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not respect… — Leonard Bishop
• What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same sharp clichés, the same jagged… — Richard Bach
• No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters,… — W. Somerset Maugham
• Beware of clichés. Not just the ­clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are… — Geoff Dyer
• My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit the subject. Develop… — William Zinsser
• Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms,… — Patrick Cockburn
• When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés moves us… — Umberto Eco
• The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe… — Sarah Thornton
• The reasons there are so many clichés about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops. — Steven Kotler
• I think that people in general, whether they are male or female, who are inhibited by the clichés of what women are or what men… — Debbie Harry
• Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class. — John Clellon Holmes
• What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it. You find it, and then you are no longer free to follow… — Victor Serge
• No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the… — Edward Bernays
• John Stowell plays jazz, but he doesn’t use any of the clichés; he has an incredible originality. John is a master creator. — Larry Coryell
• The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of… — Gerald Brenan
• If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroying—or at least deconstructing—conventional ideas… — Miuccia Prada
• Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago. — Miguel Syjuco
• To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart. — Martin Amis
• Save me from trendy religion that makes cheap clichés out of timeless truths. — Rich Mullins

Who Wrote These Clich S Quotes

43 authors contributed a total of 43 Clich S Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 1 Clich S Quote by Rich Mullins
• 1 Clich S Quote by Karl Kraus
• 1 Clich S Quote by David Foster Wallace
• 1 Clich S Quote by George Orwell
• 1 Clich S Quote by Amy Tan
• 1 Clich S Quote by Andrew X. Pham
• 1 Clich S Quote by Joseph B. Wirthlin
• 1 Clich S Quote by Jeanette Winterson
• 1 Clich S Quote by Vladimir Nabokov
• 1 Clich S Quote by Tom Robbins
• 1 Clich S Quote by Mark Steyn
• 1 Clich S Quote by Milan Kundera
• 1 Clich S Quote by Chris Rose
• 1 Clich S Quote by H. L. Mencken
• 1 Clich S Quote by Matt Haig
• 1 Clich S Quote by Leonard Bishop
• 1 Clich S Quote by Siri Hustvedt
• 1 Clich S Quote by Richard Bach
• 1 Clich S Quote by Terry Pratchett
• 1 Clich S Quote by W. Somerset Maugham
• 1 Clich S Quote by Ann Beattie
• 1 Clich S Quote by Geoff Dyer
• 1 Clich S Quote by Jeff Lindsay
• 1 Clich S Quote by William Zinsser
• 1 Clich S Quote by Khaled Hosseini