Emily Weiss Quotes

I want to keep people engaged and I want them to feel connected to what I'm doing.

To me, YouTube isn't just, 'Watch my videos!' It's, 'Let's have a conversation and get involved in each other's lives.' I want to make [my fans] feel like they have a reason to have a YouTube account because they can comment and have a voice.

My website bulletin board is the place I interact with my readers.

I saw this DJ playing music and saying things to the kids. They would answer him back, and I say, 'That's a great idea.'

The audience is already doing so much, so I don't make them work any harder.

After I built up a following on Instagram, I realized it's a good way to talk to your fans. I always try to keep the conversation going - they're really happy when that happens.

I want to have a storefront here in Los Angeles. I want people to be able to come here and connect - not just with me, but with each other.

I think it's essential to engage with your followers. I always used to email bloggers, and no one ever replied, so I try to reply to every comment and question, and although sometimes I regret it when I'm sat on Instagram til 3 A.M., it's worth it.

If you aren't talking to readers and letting them know you're just like them, they can lose interest.

I love talking directly to the fans.

There are men who talk of women and others who talk to them. I don’t talk of them, I prefer talking to them

I love Twitter. What a great tool to speak directly to people.

The truth is, when you want a great show, it's not 'entertaining' the audience - it's you sharing with them... an experience of communion.

Whenever you create some sort of disturbance in the air, there's an awakening that happens, an opportunity for a conversation, an opportunity to build bridges, specifically, an opportunity to connect different groups that typically wouldn't connect with one another.

It's true that Miitomo, at its core, aims to foster social engagement. That's what it's all about.

I love signing the books; it's so exciting to see my readers in person.

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

I love meeting booksellers and readers and hearing how they've read and received my stories. Often I'm surprised by which characters they've loved best, what scenes have stayed with them, what connections they've felt between my characters' lives and theirs.

I try not to always use self-check-out and things like that!

It's not sufficient in the internet age to communicate through the media; you have to be able to do it on the ground, door by door, coffee shop by coffee shop, shop floor by shop floor. You really have to do that as well.

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication

The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.

If you're bored, your readers will be bored. If you're faking it, you won't get the kind of readers you want.

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.