Richelle Mead Quotes

The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn't. This means that the word "metaphor" is a metaphor. I think it should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day and people people do not have skeletons in their cupboards. And when I try and make a picture of the phrase in my head it just confuses me because imagining and apple in someone's eye doesn't have anything to do with liking someone a lot and it makes you forget what the person was talking about.

I don't ever get too literal.

It'is like a book, I think, this bloomin' world.

I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.

Do you know what they say about big hands? Big gloves!

It's not in my nature to be too literal.

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

What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.

My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.

I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.

You mean, like a book?

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

Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections - whether from diffidence or some other instinct.

The metaphors exist for the stories.

Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.

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.

But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.

nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands