James Fallows Quotes

Maybe the first secret is, 'Don't bore people.'

Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story.

I know everyone says attention spans are shorter now, and if you can't get them in the first 20 seconds, you lost them. But I honestly believe if you give someone something worth slowing down to really pay attention to, they will.

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

It's a sin to bore people.

The audience, that's who I care about.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.

Whatever interests is interesting.

To be interesting, one has to provoke.

Only a few things are really important.

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

If you're not listening, you're not learning.

The only rule is don't be boring.

It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.

In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.

I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.

Take less time to read the scorecard and more time to read the hole.

Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.

It's much more important to be interested than to be interesting.

Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.

Follow the ball, man. There's only one ball. They can only give it to one of them at a time, so let's not get too far away from the reality of it all.

The more you think about something, the more important it becomes, the more important it is to you, and the more important it will become to the audience.