Quote by Neil Gaiman

He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.

— Neil Gaiman

“There are fewer metaphors around than people think.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Seeing metaphors in everything again.”

— Emilie Autumn

“The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“Metaphors are lies.”

— Mark Haddon

“Metaphors are like similes, the only difference is.”

— Aaron Davidson

“I don't want to be a simile anymore,' I said. "I want to be a metaphor.”

— China Miéville

“Metaphor, everything is sort of Metaphor of something else.”

— Sameh Elsayed

“But that was the thing about metaphors, those tricky comparisons of dissimilar things. They weren't always tricky. Or dissimilar.”

— Kim Culbertson

“Similes are like metaphors.”

— Anonymous

“The writer sensitive to language finds his own metaphors, not simply because he has been taught to avoid clichés but because he enjoys finding…

— John Gardner

“The best metaphors are a bit magical. They conjure connections that weren’t there in our minds before,”

— Sarah Arthur