Colloquial Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention… — Thornton Wilder
There's a great freedom of forms and intonations in Luigi Fontanella's poetry. He doesn't take a strong formal stand; his poetry entertains moments of nearly… — Giovanni Raboni
I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the… — Joan Didion
A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old… — Ambrose Bierce
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues. — Dwight Yoakam
When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was… — Lisel Mueller
You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book. — Chris Crutcher
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred. — David Antin
I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things… — Etgar Keret
My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone. — James Patterson
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. — Ezra Pound
...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean â€œloveâ€ in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love… — Joan Didion
Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological… — Dan Simmons
There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, "May your day be full of angry dragons" or, "May every dragon you meet… — Michelle Sagara
Did you ever meet someone named Caleb?" I say. 'Caleb," Fernando says. "Yes, there was a Caleb in my initiate class. Brilliant, but he was...… — Veronica Roth
Emma and I had both died twice, and for me, that second one actually stuck. Now I was a "resurrected American," better known, in colloquial… — Rachel Vincent
When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not… — Daniel Alarcon
I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader,… — James Jones
His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or classical; it has… — Henry David Thoreau

Who Wrote These Colloquial Quotes

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