Marriage Quote by Mason Currey

“I then completely gave up reading newspapers and watching television, which freed up a considerable amount of time (say one hour or more a…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“He couldn’t believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writer’s privileges, he thought, nostalgic already for…

— César Aira

“What satisfaction do you, personally, get from being a writer?" Lanark tried to remember. He said, "It's the only disciplined work I remember trying.…

— Alasdair Gray

Fiction was a massive, massive part of my formative years, far more so than television ever was, and I always hoped that my future…

— Steve Backshall

I got hooked to American news like a great TV season. It plays like fiction. I would come home from work, and I would…

— David Thewlis

We were talking about television one time, and Damon Lindelof said he felt that, if Ernst Hemingway was writing for media, he would write…

— Scott Glenn

There was a time in my life when one aspect of my lifestyle called for watching a lot of television.

— Walter Becker

It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.

— Elizabeth Crook

time stood still. I fell into that beloved space that writers fall into, the reason most write, as it's better than drugs or alcohol…

— Meg O'Brien

As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to…

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

It's interesting: I went 25 years without watching a single television show. I was one of those people, because I was so inside how…

— Marshall Herskovitz

Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

— Dana Carvey