“I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.” — Tobias Hill Quote

“I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.”

“People have expectations of what you are as a writer. And writers, on the whole, don't like to be classified.”

“If, at a party, I say I'm a poet, people have a hard time responding, almost as if I'd said I'm a priest.”

“The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.”

“People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.”

“That's the rub about 'Community' - for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes down to vulgar humanism, the dumbest kind of sentimental identification. We watch it because we like these people and we miss them when they don't show up. They become part of the stories we tell ourselves.”