Personal Tone Quotes

I think you can't help but write in your own voice.

I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically.

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

The tone of good web writing grows out of email. It's more direct, personal, colloquial, urgent, witty, efficient. It doesn't waste your time. It reflects that engagement, responsiveness, and haste of web surfers, as opposed to the more general passivity of print readers.

There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.

My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore than we control what we want to write about.