Metaphor 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

I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.

— Tift Merritt

The thing that's interesting about science fiction is that it is always, when it is done well, a lens on our world. And yet…

— Simon Kinberg

“The world is a metaphor, Kafka Tamura.”

— Haruki Murakami

I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In the morning…

— Neil Gaiman

In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even the most…

— Derrick Jensen

Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you…

— Jean Houston

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

— Alan Garner

“Very Like a Whale One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile…

— Ogden Nash

“At its simplest, the parable is a metaphor or simile drawn from nature or common life, arresting the hearer by its vividness or strangeness,…

— Anonymous

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

— George Orwell

When you're looking around for metaphor or simile, I do think it's often helpful to keep inside the world of the book, to gather…

— Leigh Newman