Forget Quote by Gillian Wearing

There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble…

— George Orwell

I don't ever get too literal.

— Linda Perry

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

If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.

— Larry Brooks

I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake.

— Lydia Davis

By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your…

— George Orwell

But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words

— Haruki Murakami

That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.

— John Green

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

— Florence King

Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

— Honore de Balzac

Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

— Zhuangzi