A metaphor is like a simile. – Author Unknown

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. – Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman. – Van Wyck Brooks

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades, 1947