To my mind the best one can ever do as a writer is be honest about your background and partialities and try to understand how they affect your outlook, to do violence to your own cliches, to practice compassion over caricature.
– Laurie Penny
Tag: cliche
Quotable 238
A cliché is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.
– Janet Fitch
Quotable 141
All writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and of the heart.
– Martin Amis