Metaphor Quote by China Miéville

And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned…

— Vikram Chandra

Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit…They have to fit in context.

— James J. Kilpatrick

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

— James Geary

“It was long past midnight. Laura's music played on. It was composed in the language of stars, tinkling in a crystal pool suspended from…

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny…

— Ned Beauman

“I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of…

— Margaret Atwood

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is…

— Northrop Frye

“The light was going: some cloud cover arriving, as if summoned by drama.”

— China Miéville

“I need you to hug Wallace for me.” Wallace spluttered. “Wow,” Mei said. “I’m so glad I ran out here for this.” She tapped…

— T.J. Klune

“We say our souls want joy, but they don’t,” she said. “They want what they already know, joyful or not.”

— Daniel Abraham

Great seas," he said. "What do you want?" He held the candle up to her face. "Po, what do you want?" "She did a…

— Kristin Cashore

“I don’t want to do that,” Aomame said. “What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day,…

— Haruki Murakami

“Right-ho, love,’ he said. ‘If that’s what you want to do, we’ll find out about it.”

— Diney Costeloe

I hear what people have said about what they want to see the Opera House used for and what they don't want to see…

— Gladys Berejiklian

But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

— Mark Haddon