Colloquial Quotes
20 quotes by 19 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
— Dwight Yoakam
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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
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You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.
— Chris Crutcher
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I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.
— David Antin
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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.
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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
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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
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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
— Ezra Pound
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...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love†in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love…
— Joan Didion
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
19 authors contributed a total of 20 Colloquial Quotes as follows: