"The stage is where the impossible becomes ordinary."
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
"I can resist everything except temptation."
I think all writing is a campaign against cliche. Not just cliches of the pen but cliches of the mind and cliches of the heart.
The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.