“Charlie tried to focus on what she was saying, but his head felt packed with gauze. Like no one could reach him… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
“His voice is muddy, that's what it is. Dark and brown and muddy. A note to it like coffee left too long… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Copy Share Image
“Yes, boys are a little like shoes. Why? Well...They can be useful. But mainly...They are nice to look at. Getting the right… — Rachel Hill Copy Share Image
“Deep ridges crossed his forehead like terraces in a Thai hillside, tucks in a leather cushion, troughs across a bloodhound’s jowls.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The look on his face became like the tiny snapshot of a beloved that soldiers take with them to the battlefield, not… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Kristen is looking at me like I'm a plume of smoke in the kitchen, right before you yell fire!” — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly… — Vanora Bennett Copy Share Image
“Was she Minh Thuy, finally, or was she Jenny? But the time when there had been a meaningful difference between the two… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“For a while this seemed to do the trick, and I felt that whatever contamination I had helped to spread, the boundaries… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“Sweating like a fat woman in a sauna, nun with a tattoo on her tit, overweight jockey.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“Already my childhood seemed far away—a remote age, faded and bittersweet, like dried flowers. Did I regret its loss, did I want… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The wind blowing through my ripped clothes was so cold that I felt like a Percysicle. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Lyra had never seen such a sight, never heard such a bellow; it was like a mountain laughing.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Squeal like a cheerleader named prom queen, aging retiree placing the game-winning bingo button, frenzied fan finding Johnny Depp in her supermarket.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
