Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.

Quote by Wolcott Gibbs

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Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There...

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There...

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America...

It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America...

Where it all will end, knows God.

Where it all will end, knows God.

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There...

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There...

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else,...

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else,...

People say I give the best head, and they're not always talking about sex.

People say I give the best head, and they're not always talking about sex.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on...

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on...

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a...

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a...

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

Actors yearn for the perfect director, athletes for the perfect coach, priests for the perfect...

Actors yearn for the perfect director, athletes for the perfect coach, priests for the perfect...

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking...

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking...

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It...

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It...

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is...

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is...

In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in...

In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in...

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control,...

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control,...

Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has...

Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has...