Cliche Quote by Leslie Jamison Download Open image “Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.” — Leslie Jamison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cliche Own Pleasure Privilege Redeeming Subjects
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
I like playing with a popular cliché and making it my own by half-embracing it, half-disemboweling it. — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
We have privilege in our hands as storytellers. We need to tell stories that reflect our world. — Dede Gardner Copy Share Image
your soul needs to be lonely so that its strangest elements can moil about, curl and growl and jump, fail and get triumphant, all… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
It's nice when people are passionate about something, and it's always better when they let the subject tell the story, more so then when… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course,… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
“Deeply exciting, though, cliché was, as a concept. It was truth misted by overexpression, wasn't it, like a structure seen in a fog, something… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When people ask what kind of nonfiction I write, I say 'all kinds,' but really I mean I don’t write any kind at all:… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even the flaws… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I do like arranging things. I like order. I basically like all these things that are the opposite of what people associate with the… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“I obsessed, and told myself this obsession was empathy. But it wasn't, quite. It was more like inpathy. I wasn't expatriating myself into another… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
12-step recovery is very focused on abstinence, and that's bled into the broader understanding of treatment. It would be most useful to have multiple… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks! — Sade Adu Copy Share Image
It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a horrible writer, your own knowledge and… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
“As an opener, I'd like to state that elves are certainly NOT cliché. It doesn't matter if they all have pointy ears, or they… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from. — David Twohy Copy Share Image
Audiences are hungry for something different. With binge-watching, they're hungry for interesting content they haven't seen before, and they want to be entertained. A… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis,… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are… — Josephine de La Baume Copy Share Image
You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that… — Markus Wolf Copy Share Image
When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
