We checked, and we're pleased that our one and only bit of advice to writers is a Googlewhack. The only other person to have said this is the poet Eric Pankey, in
The Journal of the Virginia Writing Project (Winter 2004): "
Change all similes to metaphors." A simile, with that pesky word "like," "draws attention to itself as a simile" (which we ourselves say but which we found quoted elsewhere because things sound better when others say them, such as John Bird in
Mark Twain and Metaphor, 2007, or, perhaps even better, S. J. Harrison in "Meta-Imagery: Some Self-Reflexive Similes in Latin Epic": "[a simile] draws attention to its own formal status as a comparison").
