Franklin Foer Quotes

I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

Publishers are born connectors; they bring like-minded people together. They are also conversationalists of the first order. They foster the interaction between the three key parties in commercial media: the audience, the author/creator and the marketer.

I don't try to show off technology in my work. The technology is a means to tell stories, so I think conversations about my work can be had by very large audiences.

I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.

Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.

The original idea was to make it easy to publish content on the Web and find an audience. What we learned from publishers is that the thing they want the most is more readers and more revenue.

You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone will read it.

Platforms - they come and go, but storytelling is forever.

Every newspaper lives by appealing to a particular public. It can only go ahead of its times if it carries its public with it. Success in journalism depends on understanding the public.

Even in the days of early YouTube, we always focused on narratives, and we always focused on franchises. We didn't do a lot of vlogging and stuff like that.

Most smart companies should make themselves media companies. That means they put out their own information.

I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there's definitely a different scale we are offering that at today.

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

My focus - even before becoming CEO - has always been memorable and unique content. And one of the most important things we did to reinforce that was create A+E Studios.

We founded RocketJump for two reasons: to provide quality entertainment and to reach as many different audiences as possible.

We have to find ways to create content that folks want to see.

I think part of the reason anyone goes into journalism is to get a response to what they write.

In Vice, I saw all of it in one. I saw a studio. I saw a content creator. I saw an agency. I saw a distributor. We want to learn from them. They're talking to a generation we're struggling to connect to as an industry.

My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.

You write to be read. That is the bottom line.

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.