Quote by Big Daddy Abel

“They will prove nothing except that we viewers will watch anything if it’s sufficiently hyped.”

— Dan Brown

“TV. It’s like if you’re not on it, you don’t exist. The single most pernicious idea in our culture.”

— John Sandford

“TV demands so little of us. It anesthetizes our worried minds and breeds mental laziness.”

— Steve Whigham

“[T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.”

— Stefano Benni

“Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that…

— Ralph Ellison in Juneteenth

“Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.”

— Saul Bellow

“We're all fucked up, I'm thinking, and that's the truth. Everyone's got some crazy shit going on in their life and no one is…

— Mark Oliver Everett

“It's like a boulder rolling down a hill - you can watch it and talk about it and scream and say Shit! but you…

— Tom Wolfe

“I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.”

— Monika Zands

“If experience teaches us anything, it’s that the very last thing a television audience wants to hear or be reminded of is how bad…

— Anthony Bourdain

“I think there's a real hunger for people speaking truth to power. Like, there's a little minority now that's saying you sounded like an…

— Jonathan Franzen

“The truth. Why are we so obsessed with the truth—begging for it, asking for it, demanding it, when all we really want to do…

— Jorge Volpi