{"id":31255,"date":"2022-12-12T10:55:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T14:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/?page_id=31255"},"modified":"2022-12-12T10:55:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T14:55:49","slug":"cliched-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/writing-tips\/how-to-write-creative-content\/how-to-write-a-metaphor\/how-to-avoid-cliches-in-writing\/cliched-metaphor\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes on writing clich\u00e9d metaphors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What writers &amp; others say<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"27006\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/writing-tips\/public-relations-writing\/relevant-public-relations\/quotes-on-writing-relevant-public-relations\/quotes\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/quotes.png\" data-orig-size=\"300,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"quotes\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/quotes-300x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/quotes.png\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/quotes.png\" alt=\"Cliched metaphor\" title=\"Cliched metaphor\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27006 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/quotes.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/quotes-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/quotes-100x100.png 100w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; 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A clich\u00e9 is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h6>\u2014 Janet Fitch, author of <em>White Oleander<\/em><\/h6>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>&#8220;Let&#8217;s have some new clich\u00e9s.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h6>\u2014 Samuel Goldwyn, independent producer and film mogul<\/h6>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>&#8220;Clich\u00e9s \u2026 dampen energy and cause eyes to skitter, and more importantly they offer nothing new \u2014 no &#8216;ah ha!&#8217; moment of understanding. They are just old words, used in an old way.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h6>\u2014 Curt Hazlett, former managing editor, <em>Portland Press Herald\/Maine Sunday Telegram,<\/em> in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessjournalism.org\/pages\/biz\/2007\/05\/become_an_inventor_of_fresh_la\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Become an Inventor of Fresh Language: Avoid Clich\u00e9s<\/a>&#8220;<\/h6>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>&#8220;If you want to get your points across with power, find replacements for those overworked phrases. Be the inventor of fresh language, not a perpetuator of stale phrases. It&#8217;s much more fun.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h6>\u2014 Curt Hazlett, former managing editor, <em>Portland Press Herald\/Maine Sunday Telegram,<\/em> in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessjournalism.org\/pages\/biz\/2007\/05\/become_an_inventor_of_fresh_la\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Become an Inventor of Fresh Language: Avoid Clich\u00e9s<\/a>&#8220;<\/h6>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>&#8220;Avoid phrases that sound familiar to the ear. &#8216;Wan&#8217; and &#8216;brouhaha&#8217; are like little clowns dancing around your copy.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h6>\u2014 Anne Hull, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for <em>The Washington Post<\/em><\/h6>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>&#8220;There&#8217;s no shortage of metaphor. But just grabbing what&#8217;s there rather than creating fresh images will yield flat and hackneyed work.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h6>\u2014 Paula LaRocque, author, <em>Championship Writing:<\/em><em>50 Ways to Improve Your Writing<\/em><\/h6>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>&#8220;Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h6>\u2014 George Orwell, British author of <em>1984<\/em> and <em>Animal Farm<\/em><\/h6>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>&#8220;Clich\u00e9s and stereotypes float on top of our brains, easily making their way to first drafts. \u2026 weed out the tired, the poor, the huddled clich\u00e9s yearning to be erased.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h6>\u2014 Chip Scanlan, senior faculty-writing, The Poynter Institute<\/h6>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>&#8220;Any great truth can \u2014 and eventually will \u2014 be expressed as a clich\u00e9. A clich\u00e9 is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, &#8216;The black cat is always the last one off the fence.&#8217; I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h6>\u2014 Solomon Short, wit and aphorist<\/h6>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>&#8220;When metaphors die \u2014 that is, pass from their literary homes in poems and books into the public domain (the process called lexicalization) \u2014 they become idioms: idioms being what we know so well that we see straight through it, as Shakespeare&#8217;s &#8216;Not a mouse stirring.\u2019 Indeed, as Francis Sparshott has put it, &#8216;a language is nothing but a necropolis of dead metaphors.\u2019 Or, as Stanislaw Lec, another aphorist, put it, &#8216;In the beginning there was the Word \u2014 at the end, just the Clich\u00e9.\u2019&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h6>\u2014 Bert O. 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Your job as a writer is to suck people into your world.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h6>\u2014 Sol Stein, author, playwright, poet, editor and publisher, in <em>Dialogue for Writers<\/em><\/h6>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>&#8220;Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h6>\u2014 Mark Twain, American author and wit<\/h6>\n<hr \/>\n<h5>&#8220;If we don&#8217;t do it <em>literally<\/em> any more, we can&#8217;t do it <em>literarily<\/em> any more.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h6>\u2014 Ann Wylie, writing coach<\/h6>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What writers &amp; others say &#8220;When I finally slept, I dreamed in headlines and bad newspeak: Predawn fires \u2026 shark-infested waters \u2026 steamy tropical jungles \u2026 the solid South \u2026 mean streets and densely wooded areas populated by ever-present lone gunmen, fiery Cuban, deranged Vietnam veteran, Panamanian strongman, fugitive financier, bearded dictator, slain civil 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