Similes Quotes

“Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.”
― Faith Hunter, Raven Cursed

“London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.”
― Anna Quindlen, Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

“If you disagree with something, it's easier to say 'you suck' than to figure out and explain exactly what you disagree with. You're also safe that way from refutation. In this respect trolling is a lot like graffiti. Graffiti happens at the intersection of ambition and incompetence: people want to make their mark on the world, but have no other way to do it than literally making a mark on the world.”
― Paul Graham

“...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.”
― John Piper, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“Kissing him last night at the pep rally had been like kissing an underpass.”
― George Saunders, Tenth of December

“The voice was cool, drawling, and insolent, but the eyes were something else. She looked about as hard to get as a haircut.”
― Raymond Chandler

“A soothing sound enveloped them. Ombric hazarded a guess as to its origin, "It's like the falling sand from a thousand hourglasses.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“A Dream Pirate attack is swift and ragged. Like awkward phantoms, the pirates often fly in lurches and jerks, and they usually destroy everything that gets in their way.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“Newly Found Sugary Spill: Tastes Like Dried Spit or Old Soda”
― Chris Ware, Building Stories

“To my mind, it’s one of the deepest gratifications the poet or fiction writer knows. I mean, the internal stumbling upon some satisfactory answer to the question, What is this like? Or, What does this remind me of? A comparison is laboriously but successfully introduced. You meet your metaphor, and it’s good.”
― Brad Leithauser

“If I sneezed, writers’ vitals would spew out my nose like bats from a cave mouth, fiery balls from a roman candle, water from an open fire hydrant.”
― Dennis Vickers, Between the Shadow and the Soul