Express Quote by Lynn Nottage

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

— Orson Scott Card

“Metaphors are lies.”

— Mark Haddon

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

— Roberto Bolano

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

— Matthew Woodring Stover

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

— M. H. Abrams

We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

— Robert Anton Wilson

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

— John Green

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

— George Lakoff

“A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Metaphors introduce symbolic elements that add layers of meaning and depth to how characters feel in any given situation.”

— Calvin Niles

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

— James Geary