Best way Quote by Robert Cormier

A metaphor is like a simile.

— Steven Wright

“Similes are like metaphors.”

— Anonymous

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

— John Green

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

— Aaron Davidson

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

— George Orwell

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

— China Miéville

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

— James J. Kilpatrick

I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express…

— Kurt Busiek

I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.

— Jordan Wolfson

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

— James Geary

Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we…

— George Lakoff

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

— Richard Dawkins