“She looked at the ceiling, eyelashes batting like hummingbird wings.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. — John Green Copy Share Image
and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon. — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“The amount of perfume she had on was like a human sacrifice on Incense Night.” — Stephen Moles Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be a simile anymore,' I said. "I want to be a metaphor.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“My mind spun like the flywheel on an antique John Deere, merry-go-round during second-grade recess, hard spun roulette wheel.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“A friend... sort of. Ren watches me like I'm a cookie jar he wouldn't mind being caught with his hands in.” — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
“Her hair burst from her head like a fireworks shell erupting, framing her face in spray of red-blond energy.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“Squeal like a cheerleader named prom queen, aging retiree placing the game-winning bingo button, frenzied fan finding Johnny Depp in her supermarket.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“Could be an amazing product, sell like condoms at a high school prom, donuts at a police convention, sunscreen on a Caribbean… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“Studied all year and wrote in my journal like a nun works a Rosary, dog with a new bone, bee in his… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“When I read it now it's like I have broken into a reality that is not mine, and when I step out… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The flock of birds always living in her chest these days had been startled. They flund themselves against the confines of her… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
“He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow,… — David Brin Copy Share Image
The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used like a simile, and I’d like it. But not as much as I’d like it if you… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand.… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“I am gifted at blending myself into any given milieu—you've never seen such a typical California teenager as I was, nor such… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“show the way a comparison can be thought through. We can even go further. In the opening simile, a human person, the… — Shira Wolosky Copy Share Image
But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“As the station wagon pulled back onto the highway, the sun was slowly sinking below the horizon like a leaky boat. Well,… — Cuthbert Soup Copy Share Image
The wind blowing through my ripped clothes was so cold that I felt like a Percysicle. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink. — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
“Her courage seemed to collapse around her ankles like an old pair of elastic undies” — Julie Anne Grasso Copy Share Image
“His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.” — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know… — John Piper Copy Share Image
