Quotes on Cliches

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

Author: Stephen Fry

Let's have some new cliches.

Author: Samuel Goldwyn

Most of my cliches aren't original.

Author: Chuck Knox

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.

Author: Adrian Lyne

Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.

Author: Michael Nesmith

I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.

Author: Charles Olson

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

Author: Alan Perlis

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

Author: William Safire

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

Author: Jose Saramago

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

Author: Dick Schaap

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

Author: Dick Schaap

The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.

Author: Ben Stiller

Cliches are what make you understand something.

Author: Matthew Vaughn

Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true.

Author: Douglas Wood