Shawn Amos Quotes

I think if you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I'm still trying to figure it out.

The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.

You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.

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

You have to make them laugh and then make them listen.

Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?

Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.'

Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?

I love Twitter. Twitter for me is twofold. I can use it to get out important information about charity stuff and where I'm going to be, and I can get feedback from the audience which I love.

The good thing about Twitter is that there's not so much of a wall between you and your fan base. They can interact with you, and it makes them more endeared to you when you interact with them.

When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

No story lives unless someone wants to listen.

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

I knock on lots of doors, but you don't reach everyone that way - Twitter is just one of many ways of keeping in touch.

As long as you tell the best story possible, you can trust that people will be able to connect to it.

You know, I look at Twitter as kind of a roomful of people who are interested in what you have to say. The people who follow you are, presumably, somewhat interested with what you have to say.

I try my best to try to respond to people, especially through Twitter.

If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed.

It doesn't matter as long as there's interaction between me and the audience. That's why they come.

I think the great thing about social media is it gives people access to you on a totally personal level that they didn't have before, so it's really important, and it's a great way to get people involved and excited about what you're doing.

I love connecting with the audience, and there's more ways than one to do that.

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

Ten years ago, you wrote a book and you never expected to find out anything about the author. Now with social media, everyone wants that connection. I think our readers want to be invited into our lives and brought on the journey and be part of this whole process.

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.