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“I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality ...”
“Plenty of masterpieces are just one clich after another, Mozart for example, but that's quite natural, because if you think about it, two clichs that have never met each other before can beget the ...”
“I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichs, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in s...”
“Literary truth is not the truth of the biographer or the reporter, its not a police report or a sentence handed down by a court. Its not even the plausibility of a well-constructed narrative. Liter...”
“about clichs. Avoid them like the plague.”
“The clich comes not in what you shoot but in how you shoot it.”