A Quote by Ben Yagoda

All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them

Ben Yagoda

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Ben Yagoda
American - Writer
Born: February 22, 1954

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

Daryl Hall

Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are clichés of observation and of thought - even of conception. Many novels, even quite a few adequately written ones, are clichés of form which conform to clichés of expectation.

Geoff Dyer

When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem to apply.

Dan Savage

Don't avoid the cliches - they are cliches because they work!

George Lucas

about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.

Khaled Hosseini

I don't think there are any clichés I try to avoid. As soon as I spot a cliché, I go for it. I feel like clichés are the most useful thing in songwriting. They're the tool on which you build all the rest of the song.

Stephin Merritt

All the child-star clichés. I've tried very hard to avoid them all.

Macaulay Culkin

All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.

Macaulay Culkin

Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

Leigh Hunt

A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things.

Jonathan Ames

Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.

Sylvester Stallone

To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart.

Martin Amis

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Aaron Sorkin

One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you've got to be careful and watch out. Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else. Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.

Adrian Hodges

Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.