"I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene."

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I use a lot of similes and metaphors when I work, simply because it's my best way of describing a building or a scene. I'm terrible at describing landscapes - trees, buildings. The inanimate things don't interest me: I always think, "Oh, no, here comes another building I have to describe." So I usually use a simile or metaphor.

— Robert Cormier