Life Quote by Greg Van Eekhout Download Open image ““A metaphor is just a condom that keeps you from catching life!”” — Greg Van Eekhout ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life
“A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are dangerous, Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Being part of the original 'Star Wars' generation, I have always known a dark future. — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find the real… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
It's possible I'm a weird person, you know, and if I could only write for people who are like me, I wouldn't have any… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
There's a certain amount of world-building that I hold off on until I need it for the story. World building in advance isn't really… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
“Magic is like pulling the pin on a grenade and then sutffing it down your pants to see what happens.” — Greg Van Eekhout Copy Share Image
I grew up in Los Angeles, and I was always fascinated by the La Brea Tar Pits. Right in the middle of the city,… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
If 'Star Wars' wasn't enough to prepare me for a dark future, there was the 'Planet of the Apes' franchise, conveniently repeated for me… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to start affecting… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness. — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
I feel lucky that my career so far has included books for adults and books for kids. They're equally important to me, and I… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
The stakes in my books tend to be kind of ridiculously high. In 'Kid vs. Squid,' the question is whether or not the California… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
I try to eat vegetarian, though I'm not very good at it, and it's a work in progress. But we basically are what we… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
