Devices Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

— Aldous Huxley

Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the…

— Leni Zumas

I should say that I'm not conscious of any particular style or any particular literary device when I am writing. I have written 22…

— Isabel Allende

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

— Ambrose Bierce

The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's…

— Charles de Lint

It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice…

— Vanna Bonta

God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is…

— Lauren F. Winner

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary…

— Ambrose Bierce

Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used…

— Joanne Harris

Through humility, soul-searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a literal hell…

— Anonymous

My approach is in talking about reality the way I see it, and I try to grasp the magic that I believe is in…

— Alice Rohrwacher

Do not talk about the soul, heaven, or God. Talking about something that is not yet a reality for you amounts to falsehood.

— Jaggi Vasudev