I’ve simplified much more in my writing. I say what I’ve got to say, not in metaphor. – Marianne Faithfull
I feel as much of a stud as… I can’t come up with a metaphor. That’s how lacking in studliness I am. – Dan Wakefield
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 food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality. – Joanne Harris
The metaphor of the subterranean is at work in a lot of Northwest writers and artists. Zooming in closer and closer and closer, then below, to the worms and the centipede. – Katherine Dunn
There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor’s almost imperceptible touch. – James Geary
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another. – James Geary
That’s the secret of ‘True Blood’ – all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans craving what they can’t have and those secret appetites transforming them into beasts, or even killers. – Rob Sheffield
I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives. – Peter Hammill
