I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive… — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metaphor for itself. — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition. — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
“... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
... we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them ... — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When I discovered metaphor and what it meant, I got really excited. That was what really pushed me through into music. — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
“But cockteasing is also a metaphor: she is someone who will manipulate your inner self while holding hers back from you.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Metaphors failed him, then. He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are ,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet… — Vince Poscente Copy Share Image
Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like,… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
“Labels such as ‘‘the culture wars,’’ ‘‘the science wars,’’ or ‘‘the Freud wars’’ are now widely used to refer to some of… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
There isn't a river or creek in the country - or there are very few - that doesn't have some small group… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about language from reading slush. You can immediately tell if a writer is in control of the narrative.… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
That’s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Yoga is a metaphor for life. You have to take it really slowly. You can't rush. You can't skip to the next… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares. — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
“I saw Sonora before me, so otherworldly, so desolate, some cast-out mistress on the pale blue planet, and longed suddenly to stay.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“The morning Mom tells me my skirt is too short, I find the lawn full of dead fledglings.” — Kyle Labe Copy Share Image
If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart. — Jesse Stuart Copy Share Image
“Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Some words are spoken by the eyes. And you must understand the language of the eyes.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde is a metaphor for alcoholism. He drinks a potion, becomes a monster. I know exactly how he feels. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material. — J. T. Walsh Copy Share Image
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
“Beth's not on that train?" "Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do… — John Green Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing. — Hank Azaria 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
