Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

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.

The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.

I like to paint pictures with words, 'cause I can't draw for anything.

Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'

I like landscape, I guess. It's kind of a game to see how you can describe it.

You can read my stuff; there are not very many quotes. It's more impressionistic.

I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual or an actual visual description of a scene and color.

Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.

In some ways, I'm just a visual person.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Painting is but another word for feeling.

Our band has always been really big on imagery. We've kind of used that as one of our strengths; we tend to do that pretty well.

I guess I have a weird habit of writing body part metaphors.

There's this poet named Walter Benton, I really like his stuff. He always uses landscapes as a metaphor for the female body.

I'm a very visual person, which is probably why I make videos rather than write scripts.

Lyricism is about painting a picture. It doesn't have to be a bunch of punchlines.

Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.

Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.

I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.

The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.

Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence.

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.