Hackneyed Quotes

13 quotes by 10 authors

No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichÃ©s that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters,… — W. Somerset Maugham
There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it. — Lawrence Watt-Evans
Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing… — Rob Brezsny
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest… — Sergei Prokofiev
There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back… — Chad Harbach
What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even… — Kenneth Turan
My coach once told me "there's no "I" in "team." I responded there's also no "I" in "hackneyed." Then I had to run 12 laps. — Lev L. Spiro
Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly. — Isaac Asimov
The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide… — W. Somerset Maugham
So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates… — Stanislaw Lem
I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices. — Sergei Prokofiev
I never take any notice of reviews-unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about my lizard eyes… — Robert Mitchum

Who Wrote These Hackneyed Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 13 Hackneyed Quotes as follows: