Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war wi…

Geoff Dyer
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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. ✨ Ten rules for writing fiction by Geoff Dyer, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
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