Fear Quote by Osama Alomar

I used to be very figurative and also just kind of scared to talk about the way I felt in a literal way.

— SZA

We've all been in that metaphoric place, having to scream out what you want in the face of your fears.

— Catherine Reitman

I don't think I've ever frightened myself before when writing, but there were areas where there was terror, as though I was looking into…

— Alan Garner

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction…

— Max Black

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

— Lydia Davis

I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied…

— John le Carre

“The peculiarity of a language which is desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. Metaphor is an…

— Victor Hugo

What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I…

— Osamu Dazai

Think about the stories you have inside that scare you. That's what you should be writing. I and others call that writing from the…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

I have no literary fears.

— Carlos Fuentes

It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I mistook you for a metaphor.”

— Rachel Hartman