Audience Quote by Michelle Fairley

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

— Steven Bochco

TV and film are very different media with different requirements. In a TV show, you have actors and fellow writers and directors, who are…

— Howard Gordon

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get…

— Jay McInerney

Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.

— Larry Wilmore

Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.

— Hugh Mackay

I'm a voracious reader. What that does is keep your mind fresh and active and hearing different voices and different styles. TV can be…

— Nina Tassler

More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a…

— Margaret Atwood

I have always believed that television is a very strong medium to convey stories, stronger than even movies. On television, you have more scope…

— Kay Kay Menon

I think TV is a medium where you can be entertained, you can be informed, you can relax and you can escape whenever you…

— Gerhard Zeiler

Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

For film and theater, you know how the story starts; you know how the story ends. With TV, you don't. It's literally like living…

— Costa Ronin

We don't feel duty-bound to get all the way through a TV program. If we're not enjoying it, we turn over. Movies, we tend…

— Nick Hornby