Evan Spiegel Quotes

I like discovering stories where I'm laughing and I'm learning. It's like, 'How was I never taught that in school?'

Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.

It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great.

The way I look at it is, when you allow people to submerge themselves into a story, they will react by thinking through what it's about. That's just so much more fun and effective, I think, than a lecture.

You will always learn from games. But every game is not the same, not the same emotion.

You spend some time with kids, you always take something with you.

To preach is very boring, and nobody wants free advice. But if it's entertainment, then this changes. If you explain something to a kid through an interesting story, he'll be hooked.

In other words, with games, learning is the drug.

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

I bring people on stage with me. It's a good time, and people love to join in on the party. Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.

Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.

To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.

When I tweet, I try and accomplish three things. One, is to make you laugh. Two, is to inform you. Three, is to enlighten you. That's all I do.

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

When you speak to a lot of kids, as I've done over the years, you know what to say, keep them laughing, good illustrations and learn to read.

To me, acting is like a party. It's like a fun thing to do. You don't have to worry. You don't have to agonize about anything.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.