"When I started writing seriously in high school,……" — Daniel Alarcon

More Colloquial Quotes

This quote is filed under Colloquial Quotes, one of 20 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was… — 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… — Unknown Author
• I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I… — Joan Didion
• A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head.… — 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… — 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… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
• I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that… — Etgar Keret
• My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not… — James Patterson
• Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. — Ezra Pound

See all 20 Colloquial Quotes »