Quote by Susan Jane Gilman

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

— Sarah Arthur

“Seeing metaphors in everything again.”

— Emilie Autumn

“The whole world seemed a maze of shifting mirrors in which I wandered alone, looking always and frenziedly for the exit back into my…

— Claire Messud

“Everything is a metaphor for everything else.”

— Jim Lawrence

“But something happened when I got out into the world, something that changed me. It was the reconnection of being at one with yourself…

— Jellis Vaes

“...I alone was a dream, a figment which had never really touched anything. I felt that I was not, never had been and never…

— John Knowles

“It was the silly little things that seemed so unimportant at the time that could end up meaning the most after, the things that…

— Kirsty Moseley

“My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Alone is how our story starts. But then I came along and changed all that.”

— Erica Lorraine Scheidt

“I felt as though the past and the future, cause and effect, patterns and connections, were a huge complicated artifice, and it was only…

— Ann Brashares

“You could be with someone and still feel alone because you were never fully connected to them. Story of my life.”

— Beth Watson

“Metaphor reveals a writer’s true grasp of life. To the degree that you have no metaphor, you have not yet lived much of a…

— Norman Mailer