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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.