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

-- Geoff Dyer

#War Quotes #Writing Quotes #Expression Quotes

“And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery”
“If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn.”
“Sometimes I feel like a fire hydrant looking at a pack of dogs.”
“It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three.”
“Any student of the New Testament eager to understand its Greco-Roman setting will profit greatly from this excellent book. I commend it highly for its up-to-date perspectives and usefulness. Jeffers writes with a breadth of expertise on the Greco-Roman world that few New Testament specialists can match.”
“God is dead but my hair is perfect.”

Source : "Has le philosophe been undone?" by Jason Burke, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2006.
“All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general terms can be such an undermining experience that, afterwards, you give it up and go to live in Guatemala.”
“There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.”

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