Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic…

By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your…

— George Orwell

“This is what writing does to you: it makes you put everything under a microscope of metaphors and similes, surrounded by memories and reminiscences.…

— Ibraheem Hamdi

I was in love with metaphors and similes and alliteration, just the play on the words. I was fascinated with that concept.

— Latto

Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit…They have to fit in context.

— James J. Kilpatrick

“It was long past midnight. Laura's music played on. It was composed in the language of stars, tinkling in a crystal pool suspended from…

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny…

— Ned Beauman

“I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of…

— Margaret Atwood

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is…

— Northrop Frye

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

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

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

“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

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

— Dennis Vickers

“Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.”

— Louise Erdrich