“The company’s stock dropped like seagull turds on a car hood, panties on prom night, celebrity names during red-carpet coverage.” — Dennis Vickers 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
“A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.” — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
“My emotions swirl like leaves caught in the breath of a dust devil, and the only thing I can seem to hold… — Emily Murdoch Copy Share Image
And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes. — Dean Koontz 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
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
“The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“Sitting in an armchair under yellow lamplight in front of a black window in an apartment whose only other light was the… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I asked the boy who wept what it felt like, crystal meth, the prettiest name for a drug besides heroin. Crystal methamphetamine.… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“Her young lover changed positions, grabbed her and pulled her rear up high . . . went inside her at a brand-new… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
“The sky was always full of birdsong and evening smells, piano music from a window, the stone buildings glowing against the blue,… — Olivia Sudjic 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 is part of my existence to be the parasite of metaphors, so easily am I carried away by the first simile… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand.… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
“I am gifted at blending myself into any given milieu—you've never seen such a typical California teenager as I was, nor such… — Donna Tartt 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
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
“show the way a comparison can be thought through. We can even go further. In the opening simile, a human person, the… — Shira Wolosky 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
Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man. — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
“Rang in my ears like Easter morning churchbells in Rome, rumble from an unmuffled Harley, fireworks shells exploding over a Fourth-of-July parade.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“Faded like morning fog in the rising sun, sports team logo on a cheap T-shirt, ninety-nine dollar paint job on a Chevy.” — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“Followed like a goat on a halter, hungry dog closing on his just-filled dinner bowl, water-bottle and towel carrier behind the tuba… — Dennis Vickers 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
One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor. — Ogden Nash 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
A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together. — George McWhirter Copy Share Image
A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“High-pitched squeal like a beauty pageant contestant found best in show, Oprah audience member given a new Chevy, rookie actress surprised with… — Dennis Vickers 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
“Laughter erupted from her belly and shot out her mouth like pigeons through an open cage door, schoolchildren bursting into summer vacation,… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on… — Jay Bylsma Copy Share Image
And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito. — Christopher Moore 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
