News Obsession Quotes

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

Sadly, the only constant in my writing environment stems from some inexplicable need to listen to the news. CNN loops over and over in the background from the time I wake until the time I finally, blessedly, fall asleep.

I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.

I'm still a news junkie. I mean, I always was, I am now.

In general, I think very few people have a sustained interest in news.

I honestly think I'm going to rot my brain with all the news. I'm a news junkie.

I never have my CNN off, it's on the whole day. I don't want to be out of range of television. I'm constantly bombarded by information - Somalia one second, Haiti the next - I need that constant pounding. I couldn't write without television. I need to have the world in my room.

Why were you lurking under our window?" "Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?" "Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice. His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage. "Listening to the news! Again?" "Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.

I'm a news junkie.

The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.

An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.

I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

We're news junkies in my house.

We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

It takes a lot to stop myself scrambling around and reading the news.

I watch practically no TV - ah, what the hell do I watch? Oh, I was for a long time addicted to CNN.

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.

I've been a news junkie as long as I can remember - and once you've covered a presidential campaign, it's nearly impossible to tear yourself away. There's so much at stake.

What keeps me up at night? Waking up to a scoop at another newspaper or on TV. I'm probably competitive, almost too much so. I will stay up till the Web sites at night roll over. And if they don't roll over, I'll stay up until it's done. I'll wake up at the crack of dawn, or in the middle of the night even, just to go and check and see.

I don't see dramatic television because my wife is a political junkie, and we have 12 sets going night and day so she doesn't miss a word walking from room to room.

I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Living a 24-hour news life has come at a personal cost. I still wake in middle of the night to check the stream to see if something is breaking, worrying whether I missed some news.

'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses news to further her career and how it can drive you insane. I love that movie.