History Main / AuthorCatchPhrase

* In ''LightNovel/AccelWorld'', Reki Kawahara likes using the phrase "any number of times," to describe something that happens often.

** He's also fond of having characters describe their ages by having them say they are "[[MathematiciansAnswer As old as [their] tongue, but a little older than [their] teeth"]]. [[Literature/AmericanGods Mr. Wednesday]], [[Literature/{{Neverwhere}} Hunter]], and [[TheThreeFacesOfEve the Kindly Ones]] from ''Comicbook/TheSandman'' all answer with this when asked how old they are.

--> [[Pinball/TheTwilightZone "Never underestimate The Power in The Twilight Zone."]]

** There are some words that recur throughout the series, however, including "shrilly", "dully", "matter-of-factly", and "thunderstruck". Creator/StephenKing once said of Rowling (in his review of ''Order of the Phoenix'', that Rowling “never met an adverb she didn’t like.”

-->-- '''Simon Furman''' describing one of his [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Furmanism Furmanisms]] in ''You Can Draw Franchise/{{Transformers}}!''

** He has a habit of describing things (usually but not always characters) as "smelling of X, not unpleasantly", where X is some smell that's distinctive but not usually considered appealing, like sweat (as with Hunter in ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}''), which also has a description of the "under city" of Bangkok smelling "not unpleasantly of sex". Likewise, Mr. Nancy's tobacco-permeated NiceHat in ''Literature/AnansiBoys'' is also described in this manner.

* Music/RonnieJamesDio used "[[Music/{{Rainbow}} rainbow]]", "sacred", "evil", "rock and roll", "master", "magic", "night" and "king" in his song titles, between most to all of his work.

* Music/RogerWaters frequently mentions "the stone", [[Music/TheWall walls]], [[Music/{{Animals}} pigs, dogs and sheep]], "recourse to the law", "pie in the sky", "Donald Duck light", "crazy", and using "babe"/"ooh babe" as an affectionate name for a female (usually in character) (or as the mother in ''Film/TheWall'' to Pink).

* Any Music/{{Nightwish}} song title has the potential to become one of these. The number of century children, dead boys, and ocean souls is staggering, and it seems like there will soon be just as many meadows of heaven.

** There are some words that recur throughout the series, however, including "shrilly", "dully", "matter-of-factly", and "thunderstruck".

** [[FoodPorn Lavish, mouth-watering descriptions of food that make you hungry just reading them.]] Two of the best are in ''Literature/FarmerInTheSky'' and ''Literature/{{Friday}}''.

* Creator/DavidDrake's characters often refer to "wogs". However, it is only in settings where [[DeliberateValuesDissonance it is clear the characters actually are somewhat bigoted]]. In the ''Literature/BelisariusSeries'', for example, he snuck it in in the last book.

* In ''VisualNovel/ShinraiBrokenBeyondDespair'', characters often swear with "Curses," including the ones who use actual profanity.

** And let's not forget to mention Furman's own StockSoundEffects; among these are '''SPOOM'''!, '''CHUK!''' and the legendary death cry of '''SHEEAAAGH!''', which even spawned a child in having a truncated "Got to-" in front of it. Basically, look for these in '''''ANYTHING''''' Furman writes....but ''please'' don't make a drinking game out of them with the rule of one glass downed for every Furmanism. If you do want to go that route, ''don't start with Rythms of Darkness''; you'll be utterly tanked by the end of it, and it may be wise to skip the issue on full drinking games to avoid either alcahol poisoning or making you so shit-faced you can't read anymore.

* Creator/KenPenders' run on ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' can be recognized by all characters' peculiar overuse of "I've", such as "I've only one chance!" instead of "I've got only one chance!", which sounds kind of oddly refined for an unruly blue teenage hedgehog. A small quirk, but an identifying one.

* Creator/StephenieMeyer uses the words 'chagrin' and 'dazzle' amazingly frequently in her ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' books. 'Chagrin' was also used quite a few times in her other book, ''Literature/TheHost''. Those words are used so frequently, in fact, that the fans who love to hate Meyer and ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' use the phrase 'chagrined my dazzle' to express sadness or disappointment.

* Furman's predecessor in the Creator/MarvelComics [[ComicBook/TheTransformers Transformers]] series, Bob Budiansky (the person primarily responsible for the Transformers universe and its characters, actually) had several tendencies of his own:

** Furmanisms reached AscendedMeme status in ''ComicBook/TransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers'', when the Autobot author "Fisitron" wrote after-action stories about the Wreckers that were full of Furmanisms.

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* Creator/NimbusLlewelyn has a number of tics, including a tendency to use the word 'eyeing/eyed' , to use brackets or dashes - like this - for aside notes and, more infamously, starting a sentence which either doesn't finish or ends up in a very different place to where it began as a result of going off on a tangent. Apparently the latter is the product of a somewhat stream of consciousness themed writing style.

** Also the use of 'it was' to emphasise sincerity or conviction.

* Stories by ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fanfic writer [[http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/User:Gideoncrawle Gideoncrawle]] are likely to have at least one narrative sentence begin with "So it was", usually in the form, "So it was that X".

* Creator/DavidDrake's characters often refer to "wogs". However, it is only in settings where [[ValuesDissonance it is clear the characters actually are somewhat bigoted]]. In the ''Literature/BelisariusSeries'', for example, he snuck it in in the last book.

* Just about every young person in ''ForBetterOrForWorse'' says "an'." Not "an'''d'''", they always leave off the "d" on the end of the word.

* Multiple lines from show up in near identical form in the book ''Literature/{{Wigfield}}'' written by the show's creators (Creator/StephenColbert, Paul Dinello, and Creator/AmySedaris).