Dirty laundry Quote by Deb Caletti

“My dad loved the shit out of her and hardly ever knew what to say to her and she loved the shit out right…

— Miriam Toews

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

— Sarah Arthur

“A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however, eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest though poor.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Seeing metaphors in everything again.”

— Emilie Autumn

“Dad always said a person must have a magnificent reason for writing out his or her Life Story and expecting anyone to read it.…

— Marisha Pessl

“Fictional worlds are a great place to indulge in unspoken fantasies. . .
 like writing the dad you never had. . . but desperately wanted growing up.”

— Jc Morrows

“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

“When I was ten, we had a dog. He humped everything and anything—from the maid’s leg to my parents’ four-poster bed. He was insatiable.…

— Emma Chase

“My dad was always snoozing on the couch, like Dagwood Bumstead. He was a lazy motherfucker. God bless him. He was always working on…

— James Ellroy

“If you live with dogs, you'll never run out of things to write about.”

— Sharon Delarose

“Metaphor, everything is sort of Metaphor of something else.”

— Sameh Elsayed

“Metaphor reveals a writer’s true grasp of life. To the degree that you have no metaphor, you have not yet lived much of a…

— Norman Mailer