“Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.” ThinkingWritingReaderMetaphorEditors Author:Steven Pressfield
“I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow.” WritingReasonBitsReaderShotsMetaphorCleverStealingTargetTransitionThievesTerrifiedAccusedArrowsPlagiarismRobberySyntaxSeamlessAluminumBeing AccusedCrossbows Author:Joseph Epstein
“The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor is created for the endlessness of reading; We are what we read.” WorldBookReadingReaderLettersMetaphor Author:Alberto Manguel
“This is a magical and inspiring metaphor through which adult readers will identify anger issues and discover practical methods to energize enduring change.” IssuesReaderAdultsMethodEndureMetaphorPracticalsAnger Issues Author:Jeffrey K. Zeig
“I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument.” WayBelieveArtAsksLanguageI BelieveDifficultChallengesAnswersSeriousReaderArgumentMetaphorWorks Of ArtEssaysDifficult Questions Author:George Steiner
“Whereas if you were writing an op-ed piece or an essay, somebody would be asking, "What's your point?" With poetry you can stay in a moment for as long as you want. Poetry is about metaphor, about a thing standing in for something else. It's the thing that opens out to something else. What that something else is changes for readers. So what's on the page - it falls away.” IfsWantWritingLongMomentsWould BeFallPiecesReaderPagesStandingAskingMetaphorPoetry IsEssays Author:Claudia Rankine
“The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content.” MovingChoicesPracticeReaderMetaphorCompositionEmploying Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“It's a beautiful aspect of narrative construction, hunting for the right images and metaphors to render our character's hearts/minds/souls as though they're ecosystems, full-fledged settings for a reader to inhabit like a place.” MindHeartSoulCharacterBeautifulReaderAspectMetaphorSettingSettingsNarrativeConstructionHuntingEcosystems Author:Joshua Mohr