A Quote by Steven Wright

A metaphor is like a simile.

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Steven Wright
American - Comedian
Born: December 6, 1955

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

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

The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.

Ned Beauman

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

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

George Orwell

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

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

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

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.

Northrop Frye

When you're looking around for metaphor or simile, I do think it's often helpful to keep inside the world of the book, to gather your comparisons from the stuff particular to that world - be they king salmon and aviation fuel, or pot roasts and spatulas.

Leigh Newman

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

My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.

Stephen Dobyns

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

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