Aware Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.

— David Twohy

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

Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There…

— Geoff Dyer

I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels,…

— John Darnielle

I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters,…

— Eric Jerome Dickey

The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism.

— Laurent Binet

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

Realism can break a writer's heart.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can…

— Christopher Rice

There are lots of things that you can go down the list and say, "Oh, these are cliches, we've seen this before, just hits…

— Paul Rudd

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

— Douglas Wood

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

— Tanith Lee