“They kept reaching for each other’s waists and drawing their hands quickly away, as if testing the heat of a fire.”
-Jamel Brinkley
The Simile Museum
Tag: Simile
September 22, 2018
“I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds–with God’s help I catch some.”
-Jean Rhys
September 10, 2018
“I washed my hands as if they were children, cradling first one and then the other.”
-Miranda July
August 30, 2018
“The effect of this was palpable and immediate, and she felt as if she were petting a large skittish animal, like a horse or a bear, skillfully coaxing it to eat from her hand.”
-Kristen Roupenian
August 21, 2018
“Generally I’ve found this to be true: I have forced myself to begin writing when I’ve been utterly exhausted, when I’ve felt my soul as thin as a playing card, when nothing has seemed worth enduring for another five minutes…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.”
-Stephen Koch
August 5, 2018
“A novel, like all written things, is a piece of music, the language demanding you make a sound as you read it. Writing one, then, is like remembering a song you’ve never heard before.”
-Alexander Chee
July 17, 2018
“At the same time, the natural autonomy of horizontalism, and its deep reliance on independent, small affinity groups of activists, encourages a constant drive to innovate. This self-overcoming is the engine of our velocity. It grants us the power to wobble, to swerve like a flock of birds and to act in ways that confound our enemy, as events quickly spiral toward the people’s vision.”
-Micah White
July 9, 2018
“Strength, grace, romance, folly, poetry, youth–she read him like a page.”
-Virginia Woolf
June 26, 2018
“I wrote this as a parody of Gilbert and Sullivan because their work epitomizes salient aspects of the British Empire which remain vibrant. And because as a child I was sick to death of hearing “I am the very model of a modern major general.” I enjoyed writing this, playing with rhyme and language–it was like spitting into their cultural soup.”
-Michelle Cliff
The Simile Museum 