Comparisons Quote by Brad Leithauser

“The “Metaphor is one of thoughts most essential tools. It illuminates what would otherwise be totally obscure. But the illumination is sometimes so bright…

— Alistair Gray

“So many options that they're almost overwhelming. Which is why it is sometimes so easy to grab the cliche, to reach out to what…

— Jenny Hubbard

“Words - I wonder if you can realize how much I love them. You are too much preoccupied with mere things and ideas and…

— Aldous Huxley

“The best metaphors are a bit magical. They conjure connections that weren’t there in our minds before,”

— Sarah Arthur

“The writer sensitive to language finds his own metaphors, not simply because he has been taught to avoid clichés but because he enjoys finding…

— John Gardner

“Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.”

— Bailey Vincent

“Writing is about making choices, Miss Dovecott says. One word or phrase or title over another. So many options that they're almost overwhelming. Which…

— Jenny Hubbard

“Is that true," I asked, "that song?" "It is a metaphor," said Mrs. Davis, "it has metaphorical truth." "And the end of the mechanical…

— Donald Barthelme

“How, in the contemporary period, can we evoke the imagery that communicates the most profound and most richly developed sense of experiencing life? These…

— Joseph Campbell

“I felt in my heart that the further one ventures the better one understands how everything in our life is common, short, and empty;…

— Joseph Conrad

“Sometimes I have the feeling that what takes place is identical to what doesn't take place, what we dismiss or allow to slip by…

— Javier Marías

“And one of my firmest conclusions is that we always think by seeking and drawing parallels to things we know from our past, and…

— Douglas Hofstadter