Conversational Tone Quotes

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.

I don't know how it is for people who write fiction or literature, but for me, when I'm writing music, especially with this album, I felt compelled to hold up my end of the conversation. I want people to connect deeper with it.

I'm not rapping, I'm conversing. It's just a conversation between me and you.

We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.

There aren't any real dumb people in my voices. It's always irritated me about Hollywood dialogue - there's so much dialogue that would just bore a Ford mechanic. This is not how people talk.

When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to.

The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point and have to question yourself; but normally, dialogue writes itself.

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

In the past, great communicators were great orators, but great communicators today sound conversational, and interrupting is common in conversation. And public discourse is now more about entertainment than enlightenment.

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

In all of my career, the style is still the same, and that is of a friend, just sitting and talking.

I write in quite a simple way because that's just the way I write. The vocab I use is quite wee. That's just the way I talk.

The world, more suffering than sinning, turns toward Pope Francis as in a conversation people turn to the person who is making sense of things.

Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.

A formative cookbook for me was Nigella Lawson's 'How to Eat.' Its warm, conversational tone is wonderful.

Let your letter be written as accurately as you are able,--I mean with regard to language, grammar, and stops; for as to the matter of it the less trouble you give yourself the better it will be. Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.

Writing is better if it's kept simple. Every sentence doesn't need to have perfect noun/verb agreement. I've said 'ain't' on the air. Because I sometimes use 'ain't' when I'm talking.

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.

We can't avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.

Writing dialogue is like writing a song, which I've done.

The public talk colloquially, the public's grammar's not perfect. They kid around and I don't think they overly mark me down for that. They just see me as a normal guy.

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.