"The only valid reason to use clichÃ©s is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not respect the scene he is trying to dramatize enough to fashion it through precise prose and imaginative imagery. From the book Dare to be a Great Writer: 329 Keys to Powerful Fiction by"

-- Leonard Bishop

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“Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one else can interfere with it.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.”
“There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.”
“Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.”
“I feel really uncomfortable writing about Sudan when I'm not there. It always looks different. When you're outside Sudan it's easy to lose sight of how much of what happens is driven by local politics. And when you're in America in particular, there's this sense that what D.C. has to say is the only thing that counts.”
“When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with”
“I volunteer!" I gasp. "I volunteer as tribute!”
“I wish I was a rapper. There are certainly times when I wish I could just drop an album and channel all my ideas, anger, humor and energy into some music and be done with it.”

Source : Todd Boyd (2004). “The New H. N. I. C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop”, p.9, NYU Press

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