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Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.

When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake.

The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.