Limmy Quotes

I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.

The entertainment industry is humungous, and people have so many choices right now - they can watch web series, movies, stand-up comedies, and plays.

You know, I've never been a comic book person, just because that's not my gig and I don't have a television.

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.

I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV anymore.

I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way, including 'Lost' and 'The Wire.' As a kid, I'd read books while playing.

I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.

I never read comics as a kid. I guess I was lazy and watched cartoons instead.

I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.

Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.

I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.

Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.

I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.

I don't read Science Fiction.

The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.

When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them reach for the remote control. Then they read before they go to sleep, to get off to sleep. They do that because reading feels like a duty, and TV feels like fun.

On the whole, I don't watch television.

In the past, I've told people to get me DVDs: like, the box sets of entire series. When you're overseas and there isn't much else to do, they can be great.

I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.

People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.

Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read the Hugo book in any language.

We are such a sound-bite culture; people are so accustomed to flipping through their television so quickly that we only have just a few seconds to grab someone's attention.

I love to read the way people love to watch television.