Relaxed 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.

That's how cricket should be broadcast. Ball-by-ball calling is important but you've got to be lighthearted like you're down the pub with your mates.

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.

There's at least one fist bump every interview.

I don't emphasize the whatevs. I say it as if it's truly a toss-away word.

So much about 'Rookie' has been very organically familial among our contributors, among our readers. Yeah, if I interview someone like Lorde, who I do know outside of work - sometimes I'm just so happy; it's so cool that this is organically, effortlessly, the warm, supportive friend vibe that we want here.

I think communication should be fun and that we should all worry less about how we say things and more about what we say.

I ain't tripping about not playing with my brother.

Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.

Criticism should be a casual conversation.

I think the best writers use the language they use every day when they talk to friends. When we talk to each other, we tend to talk in short grabs rather than in long flowing sentences. I think that's not a bad way to write.

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

I don't really think of my blog as a real blog. It's a lame blog. It's more like my when-the-mood-strikes update, or smoke signal.

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.