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- The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a… — 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… — Leonard Bishop
- What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same sharp clichés,… — Richard Bach
- No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh,… — 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… — 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… — William Zinsser
- Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War… — Unknown Author
- When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred… — 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… — 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… — Debbie Harry
- Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class. — John Clellon Holmes