Quote by Haruki Murakami Download Open image ““Enough with these stupid metaphors. They don't do any good.”” — Haruki Murakami ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It is not enough for the phrases to be good., what you make with them ought to be good too.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Taking the metaphors literally gives them a free pass to duck out of the real heavy lifting.” — Sean Chercover Copy Share Image
“But that doesn’t seem enough. It’s not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Nonsense is better than no sense. For at least some sense can be made from it.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“But you have to be careful which metaphor you use, because it matters... The metaphors have implications. Do you know what I mean?” — John Green Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute...” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but at the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get out of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
