Quote by J.D. Barker

I gave him his first TV and he needs to remember that.

— Kanye West

“If your TV is broken, don’t get a new one—get a new hobby: reading.”

— Jarod Kintz

“We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television”

— Neil Postman

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

— Emily Watson

I grew up without TV, I grew up listening to radio, I grew up reading.

— Hilary Hahn

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of…

— Thomas Mann

My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

— Maria Semple

“My grandpa never read the newspaper. Not because he was particularly optimistic, but because he was illiterate. He taught me to read by watching…

— Jarod Kintz

“David Foster Wallace: We sit around and bitch about how TV has ruined the audience for reading—when really all it’s done is given us…

— David Lipsky

“satellite TV—as always amazed that there could be so many options and so little to watch.”

— Wendy Wax

“Mr Bennet sat taciturn, staring at his magazine and waiting for the invention of television.”

— William Codpiece Thwackery

I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a…

— Robert Knepper