He yawned like a black bear coming out of hibernation.

“Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.”

— Louise Erdrich

“gleaming like a searchlight, Iowa moon, silver plate.”

— Dennis Vickers

“Faded like morning fog in the rising sun, sports team logo on a cheap T-shirt, ninety-nine dollar paint job on a Chevy.”

— Dennis Vickers

Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like 'his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day, say about…

— Terry Pratchett

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

— James Geary

“Detonations crash in from nearby like walls she's a void at the center of.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.”

— Chris Baty

Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.

— Arundhati Roy

It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.

— Neil Gaiman

“The amount of perfume she had on was like a human sacrifice on Incense Night.”

— Stephen Moles

“We were a bit like bacon and eggs, where y'know, the chicken is involved, but the pig is really committed? I totally gave myself…

— Dawn French

“It seemed my whole life was composed of these disjointed fractions of time, hanging around in one public place and then another, as if…

— Donna Tartt

And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.

— Richelle Mead

And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned…

— Vikram Chandra

“That night I dreamt about the roses laid at the wrong feet—the feet of the nurse. Each bit of the dream was like a…

— Olivia Sudjic