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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… — 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… — Unknown Author
- I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in… — Joan Didion
- A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are… — 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,… — 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… — 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… — 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