Books Quote by Ogden Nash

“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

I use a lot of similes and metaphors when I work, simply because it's my best way of describing a building or a scene.…

— Robert Cormier

Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit…They have to fit in context.

— James J. Kilpatrick

“It was long past midnight. Laura's music played on. It was composed in the language of stars, tinkling in a crystal pool suspended from…

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny…

— Ned Beauman

“I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of…

— Margaret Atwood

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is…

— Northrop Frye

And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned…

— Vikram Chandra

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

— James Geary

“A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.”

— Chris Baty

“Detonations crash in from nearby like walls she's a void at the center of.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like 'his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day, say about…

— Terry Pratchett