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“Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are clichés of observation and of thought—even of conception. Many novels, even quite a few adequately written ones, are clichés of form which conform to clichés of expectation.”
― Geoff Dyer

“Words are like breath," she said, "you say them and they're gone. But writing traps them.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pale Horseman

“How ridiculous were the attentions the weak paid one another in the shadow of the strong!”
― V.S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas

“I wonder where father's gone. He repeatedly goes out but never comes in.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, Eva Trout