Catastrophe Quote by Aharon Appelfeld Download Open image “I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.” — Aharon Appelfeld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Catastrophe Inspirational Metaphor Writing
Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event. — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. — John Green Copy Share Image
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. — Florence King Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is… — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown… — Roni Horn Copy Share Image
I never think in metaphors or fully make those kind of associations myself. I just lay down a complex situation and hope things arise… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something.… — Aharon Appelfeld Copy Share Image
I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything. — Aharon Appelfeld Copy Share Image
“Since they were unable to liberate themselves from the old words and the fear, they prowled the streets and cast their angry shadows.” — Aharon Appelfeld Copy Share Image
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an… — Aharon Appelfeld Copy Share Image
People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them. — Aharon Appelfeld Copy Share Image
My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights. — Aharon Appelfeld Copy Share Image
Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination. — Aharon Appelfeld Copy Share Image
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. — Aharon Appelfeld Copy Share Image
A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind. — Aharon Appelfeld Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share
I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
To you, the people of Flint, I say, as I have before, I am sorry and I will fix it. No citizen of this… — Rick Snyder Copy Share Image
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of plutocracy, oligarchy, and mounting theocracy that rule our state? How do we address the self-inflicted catastrophes that devastated our natural environment? So large is our malaise that no single writer can encompass it. We have… — Harold Bloom Copy Share
It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
When the regime changed in Japan, the Japanese changed; Russians too can change, as long as the conditions for it are present once again.… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different -… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
