Analog Quote by John Cameron Mitchell

I certainly wanted Hedwig's world to be one where identification and categories are fluid, changing, and confusing, as they are, really, in life.

— John Cameron Mitchell

“Harry lost any sense of where they were: Streetlights above him, yells around him, he was clinging to the sidecar for dear life. Hedwig’s…

— J.K. Rowling

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

— James Geary

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

— Terry Pratchett

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

— Henry Adams

A metaphor is like a simile.

— Steven Wright

Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers…

— Steven Pinker

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

— George Orwell

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

— Aristotle

“Let us have a language worthy of our world, a democratic style where rich and well-born nouns can roister with some sluttish verb yet…

— William Gass

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

— Lydia Davis

“Language is nothing but a huge set of false analogies”

— Kim Stanley Robinson