Uncreative Writing Quotes

There are writers out there who say they're writing a second series, and then you pick it up and it feels exactly the same, only the lead character is blonde instead of brunette.

Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them, out of which they compile a third, without any new material of their own, and with very little application of judgment to those which former authors have supplied.

Too many new writers dress up old cliches.

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

People love cliches. If you can give people cliches, that's very good TV, then.

Nothing new ever happens in the books. It's the same old theme.

Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.

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

I'm terrified of cliches.

Sometimes you watch stuff and it's like, oh God - it's the obvious cliches of the genre. You've got to do better.