We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition. — Stephen R. Donaldson 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
“I don't want to be a simile anymore,' I said. "I want to be a metaphor.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The world is a room of heavy furniture. Eventually you are allowed to leave.” — Adam Foulds Copy Share Image
“It depressed me to think that I might have been looking at another person but seeing only myself.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
I think the best horror is often a metaphor or keys into people's real life paranoia. — Ti West Copy Share Image
The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors. — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
“It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the left, sticking… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense,… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
I hate to use this as a metaphor, but making movies is kind of like going to war. It's not - but… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
“We cannot be too cautious, Hannelore. Just because someone knocks on the door doesn't mean you have to open it. Sometimes, sweet… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for… — Rorion Gracie Copy Share Image
The fundamentals of hip-hop still play an important role, cause it's about those similes, those metaphors, those parallels. And to some people… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful aspect of narrative construction, hunting for the right images and metaphors to render our character's hearts/minds/souls as though they're… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
“Do you know, it's really hard to be a parent. I blame it on Santa Claus. You spend so long making sure… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“The buzzing was like the eager purr of a muscle car that had just been started, but left in neutral. That was… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Why would a white caribou come down to Beaver River, where the woodland herd lives? Why would she leave the Arctic tundra,… — Kathleen Winter Copy Share Image
It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Have you ever thought about the grid of Manhattan?' It's like...a metaphor for life. You think you have the freedom to walk… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“Three postcards await our perusal, yea, three visions of a world. One: I see a theme park where there are lots of… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
For me, what I am making in the novel is a place to live. When I first switched from poetry to novels,… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“The real artist with no tear in his eye and no sadness in his heart, puts the pages in the fire and… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
