A Quote by George Orwell

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

George Orwell

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George Orwell
British - Novelist
June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

George Orwell

In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.

Edward M. Lerner

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

Alan Garner

Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.

Grant Morrison

I use a lot of similes and metaphors when I work, simply because it's my best way of describing a building or a scene. I'm terrible at describing landscapes - trees, buildings. The inanimate things don't interest me: I always think, "Oh, no, here comes another building I have to describe." So I usually use a simile or metaphor.

Robert Cormier

A metaphor is like a simile.

Steven Wright

I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.

Tim Vine

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

James Geary

If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.

Ian Anderson

Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style.

Joe R. Lansdale

He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.

Neil Gaiman

I loved seeing my name in print, I loved seeing my words in print. I felt really privileged to be in the kind of company I was in at Esquire, but I didn't think it was going to launch a career as a top-notch journalist. It's just not what I wanted.

Laurence Shames

I use the computer as a tool. Like chance or the camera or the other tools I've used, it can open my eye to other ways of seeing or of making dances. It's not simply to do a trick.

Merce Cunningham

The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.

F. L. Lucas

One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.

Ogden Nash

Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.

Salman Rushdie

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