Quotes About Engagement

The pace of play is very important whether I'm watching baseball, tennis or golf.

Pacing has become more important than ever, largely because of other media. I've always tried to start my stories out with a bang, something that will hook their attention.

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

The key is to identify and know what the audience wants and give it to them in the best package possible.

For an actor, nothing can be more blissful than a packed date diary!

Whatever's good about your book should be good on page 1, or very few editors are going to get to page 2.

One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.

One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.

I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl. If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on.

I've had experiences where I wasn't allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page. That's not fun for me. For me, part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium.

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.

I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.

I've spent more time on Hillary Clinton's Flickr page than any other human being on the planet.

I love retweeting things and seeing how many fans are on other people's pages.

Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's familiar stuff and has all been written about before.

I want to write books that keep people up at night, where they cry through the first forty pages and keep reading anyway.

I run our Twitter and Facebook pages, because I feel it's important to maintain a personal relationship with fans.

Engage with your readers as often as you can. Readers, myself included, want a relationship with everyone in their lives, even the people behind the pages of their favorite books.

When I first looked at 'Travesties,' I thought, 'I don't know what to make of the first page of this, let alone 80 pages.' But I just thought, 'Well, I'll go along for the audition because I love all the people involved.'

I love reading any interesting book. If it is boring I keep it forever after reading 4-5 pages of it. But if it is good, I can go on reading it no matter what genre it belongs to.

Our goal has always been to make broadcasters on TwitchTV feel like they own their channel pages, and we're continuing to make incremental improvements there.

There's a fullness that happens when someone is focussed on you. For me, if I'm being fully looked at and paid attention to and seen, I'm filled up by that.

We're not getting paid. We have these great musicians with us and it gives us a real charge. And the audience gives us a charge, because they keep it interesting all the time.

I've always been interested in how other people live their lives, which is why it's important to engage fully even in painful times. And out of that, I get to laugh.