Michelle Phan Quotes

If you're creating an entertainment site, you want the content to be the star.

Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.

I love piecing together intricate thoughts that people find compulsively readable and they can't put down.

I see my responsibility as to give people something they want to keep turning the pages of and giving people something to chew on, looking at some aspect of human nature that hadn't occurred to them recently.

Our responsibility is to deliver the most compelling content to our players. and if we do that, the audiences are there.

Authenticity is absolutely the key to a great tweet.

I like to keep my Twitter pure. I don't want to sell my followers anything.

Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.

I flood the Internet with what I think is quality content. That's why I did things like giving out a song every 100,000 Twitter followers because I am just looking for ways to get my fans to hear all this music without over saturating things.

I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring.

Whatever I've worked on, I've always tried to make my writing personal. I think that's what makes my books somewhat different from what other scientists are doing. You have to tie concepts into everyday life, or they just won't be interesting for readers.

I don't know that it's particularly good for my writing process, but I have gotten some very valuable writing ideas and advice through Twitter and Facebook and other social network sites.

Co-creation is much more work than writing somewhere in a hidden corner and then publishing your content. However, the benefits outweigh the costs.

Longreads embodies a lot of what we really value with Automattic and WordPress.

The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span.

I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.

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

If people are given quality stuff to watch, they'll watch it.

I used to tweet about the most mundane things - like 'I just bought a soya latte' - but now I try and make it a bit more interesting.

I want to stay proactive and keep having funny material online.

The question now is can better content be driven solely by more money. I have learned in 26 years that only money cannot give you best content.

I look for good scripts, not anything. It should inspire me, and the audience should like it.

I think if you make good, interesting content with compelling story lines and good characters, people will tune into the web for as long as you want them to.

There's no longevity on YouTube. You have to keep pushing boundaries.

It's too easy to underestimate your audience. But it's not rocket science: bad plays don't get people on seats; good plays do.