Books Quote by Edward M. Lerner

One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it as if…

— Robert J. Sawyer

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

— Mary Ruefle

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

— James J. Kilpatrick

“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

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

— Richard Whately

“The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn't have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes true it ceases to…

— Sol Luckman

I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to a lot…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we…

— George Lakoff

“In serious Victorian fiction, as in Shakespearian tragedy, melodrama normally functions as metaphor. The author finds a vivid equivalent for a reality too elaborate…

— Ian Gregor

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton