Quotes About Literary Devices

#1. His studies were always second to Beatrice. He would've said everything was second to Beatrice but the flowery metaphors and literary devices can only stretch so far and for so many characters.

Bruce Crown

#2. Told you to get him a bell.

Mora Early

#3. Delayed gratification hints that something terrible is going to happen, and then delays the resolution.

It's that interval between the promise of something awful and it actually happening, where suspense resides.

Sandy Vaile

#4. How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day?

Yip Harburg

#5. When I was looking at the moon, I saw your eyes looking at me. I felt lights of love softly touching me, in the silence I heard your sweet music of joy, and then I got lost in your love.

Debasish Mridha

#6. I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic. And emotional.

Richard M. Nixon

#7. The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical.

Marissa Meyer

#8. If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.

Baruch Spinoza

#9. For when all is equilibrated, when all is beheld from without all, there is joy, joy, joy that is but one facet of a diamond, every other facet whereof is more joyful than joy itself.

Aleister Crowley

#10. Did you ever thing, Bryntastic, that I might want to be friends?" he whispers close, so close to me I feel his breath on my neck ... "That I remember the girl who used to love laughing? Who used to blush all the time? The first girl I ever danced with?

Nyrae Dawn

#11. Failure to act in a timely manner can be fatal.

Terry Brooks

#12. You can't mess around with young readers - you have to cut straight to the heart of the story. The character can be complex, the plot can have some surprises, but the emotions have to be clear.

Rodman Philbrick

#13. Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

Christina Stead

#14. We're not cameras, we're artists.

Frank Bruno

#15. Books. It's always easier to tell people that a character is funny rather than attempt to hit the punchline of a joke that character would've said. But if we all simply told, books would cease to exist. And so would empathy. And feeling.

Joyce Rachelle

#16. Suspense doesn't always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.

Sandy Vaile

#17. Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us.

Richelle Mead

#18. HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

Ambrose Bierce

#19. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in the Kingdom of This World (179).

Alejo Carpentier

#20. No, Ben. What I'm asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben's the driver, right?

Jonathan Harnisch