Books Quote by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

I've spoken often of how the fantasy genre is able to, with the greatest freedom among all the genres, take a metaphor and make…

— Steven Erikson

Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.

— Francesca Lia Block

People think I write fantasy, but I don't; some things may be exaggerated or distorted in the same way that painters distort and alter…

— Joe Orton

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

— Twyla Tharp

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

— Joseph Campbell

It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

— Rachel Hartman

The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show…

— Jimi Hendrix

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

— Roberto Bolano

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

— John Green

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

If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it.

— Kurt Busiek

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

— Neil Gaiman