#cliches

My life as well as my writing are guided by creed in lieu of clichés Carl Henegan ↗

— Carl Henegan

#life #writing #life

She looked so disappointed, so grieved and desperate that Clem longed to comfort her, only he couldn't think of thing to say that she hadn't heard a hundred times from Dad and Dr. Snow and Mrs. Mack: how things would get better in time, though no one knew how much time, and that life might be a little better for her and Jess once school began again. ↗

— Judith Clarke

#comforting #loss #life

We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist. ↗

— Marc Almond

#apart #being #cliches #go #images

Cliches are what make you understand something. ↗

— Matthew Vaughn

#make #something #understand #you

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#being #cliches #i #i think #like

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

— Douglas Wood

#fresh #fresh ideas #i #ideas #poorly

[R]aging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is a new phenomenon, which is why the phrase "the good old days" has passed from cliché to self-parody. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#cliches #crime #exclusion #immigration #morals

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#book #cliches #danger #i #i think

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#cliches #like #most #then #true

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#cliches #permeated #prose