Formal English Quotes

#1. After I arrived in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, I entered sixth grade and quickly grew to love my new home, family and culture. I discovered a passion for language, though it was hard to learn the difference between formal English and American slang.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#2. I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.

Shakuntala Devi

#3. I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.

Josh Lanyon

#4. I am an atheist. I was born a Catholic, but after I had traveled to Northern Ireland with some Catholic friends, and we had a horrible experience with the English Protestant police, I lost all taste for formal religion.

Guy Laliberte

#5. I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do.

Kola Boof

#6. I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

Scott Westerfeld

#7. I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

Kate DiCamillo