Gail Collins Quotes

A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.

Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.

People's behavior will change with technology. I know very few young people who can't type out a text message on their phone with one thumb, for instance.

Technology is mostly a force for good, but it has its downsides, too. I want my students - and my readers - to be intelligently skeptical about technology and be informed about the good and the not-so-good parts.

How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty?

Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.

I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.

Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways.

For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

All that I did was to avail myself of the great privileges of the fiction writer, spring over every scientific difficulty with fancy’s seven-leagued boots, and create on paper what other men were planning out in steel and other metals.

Even things like supermarket self-checkouts, they do mean people's jobs go. It's always worth thinking about the implications of things. Just because something's easier, it doesn't mean that it's the right thing to do.

Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.

I'm a storyteller who wants to tell untold, meaningful, universal stories in unforgettable ways. I want to do it all, study it all, and find my place in it.

I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.

I was portraying the family through my eyes. Everything that's happened in the strip has happened to me.

Someone once accused me of trying to turn the sitcom into an art form, and I really believe that's what I was trying to do.

If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.

Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you free.

Writing a screenplay is so spare, it kind of reminded me that I really should celebrate what I can do in a book, which is description: for example, places, people, locations.

I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making.

The key thing for an intellectually rigorous writer to come to grips with is the marginalization of literature by more technologically sophisticated and thus more visceral forms.