As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards. — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“His presence suddenly made things feel off-kilter, gorgeous as if being crushed in lush velvet while cascading off the edge of a… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“The kid poured him another straight rye and I think he doctored it with water down behind the bar because when he… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Our house was like sleeping beauties palace after the enchanted spell is cast” — Karen Foxlee Copy Share Image
“Then the nurse did turn to glance, and then stare—actually stare—at me. His look made me feel as if I was green,… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
“He was looking at me like I was a very nice thing of his that wasn't working quite like it should, like… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
“The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The poems that used to entrance me in the days of Miss Violence now struck me as overdone and sickly. Alas, burthen,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“Smiled like a homecoming queen, Pit Bull Terrier with a new collar, actress on the Letterman show.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Life is like a bad haircut. At first it looks awful, then you kind of get used to it, and before you… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“She pinched her lips tight together, like someone considering a foul smell, three-legged dog, ugly baby.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn't make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the… — Brandon Andress Copy Share Image
“Her memory like a skipping record, bumping continually up against the scratch.” — Kristen Roupenian Copy Share Image
