Tom Wolfe Quotes

The age of printed pamphlets and political essays has long since been replaced by television, a distracting and absorbing medium which seems determined to entertain itself more than it informs and educates.

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

Before there was an Internet, before there was an A.O.L., the circulation of newspapers was going down.

Media is so weird; everything is so accessible now. It used to be this thing where, if you did something on 'This American Life,' this predates me, but when David Sedaris did it, for example, it would just play, people who heard it heard it, and then the book would come out a year later, and people would be like, 'Ahh, I kind of remember that.'

While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.

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

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

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.

It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore.

When I started, TV was regarded as something that wasn't as great as film or theatre or radio, but it has proved to have far greater powers than those.

The way that we're consuming what we watch. Netflix, binge-watching, destination agnostic were not terms. It was about networks, times, dates. Even with feature films, you had to see it this way, in this capacity, at this time. All that has changed. Now it's really about the story. It's a gift that I became a storyteller at this time.

The sad thing is that I only ever read novels in bed and now only on the iPad, and thanks to Netflix and iTunes my reading time is getting eaten up more and more by movies and brilliant sci-fi television, like the U.K. series 'Misfits!'

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

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.

For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance.

I been doing a lot of reading, watching a lot of basketball, watching a lot of shows.

We live in a time of short attention spans and long stories. The short attention spans are seen as inevitable, the consequence of living our lives in thrall to flickering streams of information. The long stories are the surprise, as is the persistence of the audience for them.

I like to read. I like to spend time on the Net. I like to watch movies.

I didn't read Western novels much until I was in my twenties, but I had a diet of them on film and TV, as well as other things, of course.

The audience in the country has evolved, and for them, it is about real characters.

I must admit I don't usually buy a daily paper, although I will get one if there's an interview I want to read.

The old attitude toward newspapers was that they were completely disposable - today's newspaper is tomorrow's fish wrap.

I like magazines. I love to look at a magazine. But the magazines have got to get better. Everything pushes someone else to get better. So the Internet pushes the magazines.

Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news?