Truth Quote by Zia Haider Rahman

“I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard…

— Abdulrazak Gurnah

Mapping, both literal and metaphorical, has always been about our quest for knowing.

— Priyamvada Natarajan

“for what was a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“We form a mental map, and then that shape, shapes us”

— Lois Farfel Stark

“The “Metaphor is one of thoughts most essential tools. It illuminates what would otherwise be totally obscure. But the illumination is sometimes so bright…

— Alistair Gray

“To become truly unmistakable I have to be willing to ditch the map, travel without a guidebook, and see where it leads me.”

— Srinivas Rao

“The true danger of all symbols, metaphors, and images (tangible, visible) is that they may reduce the irreducible reality that stands behind them all.”

— Patrick D. Miller Jr

“Because this territory in my internal universe is continually shifting, I've learned to look for patterns and rhythms in the chaos that I can…

— Sascha Altman DuBrul

“A map was a fine thing to study when you were disposed to think of something else, being made up of names that would…

— George Eliot

“The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.”

— Charles Simic

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

— Sarah Arthur

“The world seems to be divided between people who like maps and those who don’t.”

— Michael Siegel