Devices Quote by Aldous Huxley

It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice…

— Vanna Bonta

The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's…

— Charles de Lint

Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the…

— Leni Zumas

I should say that I'm not conscious of any particular style or any particular literary device when I am writing. I have written 22…

— Isabel Allende

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

— Ambrose Bierce

Literary devices are used in everything you do, but more importantly in what you say.

— Mariam Eldoma

“They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books. This was the reason Americans shot each other so often: It…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“New Rule: Now that liberals have taken back the word "liberal," they also have to take back the word "elite." By now you've heard…

— Bill Maher

Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform.

— Carl Bereiter

A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness.

— Phillip Lopate

An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion,…

— Cynthia Ozick