Comfort Quote by Siri Hustvedt

The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.

— Terry Pratchett

Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it…

— Aleksandar Hemon

A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear…

— Janet Fitch

I think cliche is a good thing sometimes.

— Kevin Abstract

“Everyone can write a cliche. What's rare is to write them often and unashamedly enough that people quote it as if it's some deep…

— Jimmy Lo

Using clichés is a substitute for thinking

— George Orwell

Cliches are what make you understand something.

— Matthew Vaughn

“When I hear what I have written out loud, the cliches hang in the air between us like bad breath”

— Sarah Kay

Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés.

— Alan Bennett

“I understand why sometimes people speak in cliches because sometimes there is no other way to describe something.”

— Augusten Burroughs

about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.

— Khaled Hosseini

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.

— Matthew Vaughn