If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or…

Each time I undertake to reread Virginia Woolf, I am somewhat baffled by the signature breathlessness and relentlessly "poetic" tone, the shimmering impressionism, so…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography,…

— Jandy Nelson

I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me greatly, for…

— Primo Levi

I think about dying but I don't want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to…

— Matthew Healy

If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in…

— Humphry Davy

An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the…

— Steven Pinker

Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not…

— Tupac Shakur

I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends. You stop…

— Joseph O'Neill

It is important to realize that whatever we do or design has iconographic references, it comes from somewhere; any form is always metaphorical, never…

— Ettore Sottsass

The musical mystery is: How do you marry tuned percussion and voice? On a metaphorical level, everything that's really important - like the clouds,…

— Mickey Hart

Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my settings than,…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?

— Owen Barfield

When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We…

— Derrick Jensen

Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the…

— Neil Postman