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Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books. -- David Strathairn
I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself. -- Emily Watson
What kids are exposed to on television is more frightening and horrifying than what they see in my books. -- Chris Van Allsburg
The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books. -- Anatoly Rybakov
I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do. -- Emily Watson
Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life. -- Gene Simmons
Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that. -- Method Man
I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when creating content across the board: in television, books, newspapers, radio, videos. -- Martha Stewart
First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love. -- Nate Berkus
If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared. -- Karl Pilkington
Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included. -- Chris Ware
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories. -- Paul Auster
I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television. -- John McGahern
I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept. -- Alison Jackson
Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers. -- Pat Brown
My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books. -- James Burrows
It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field. -- Stephen Covey
Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a journey. All I do is tell those stories without scripts and without actors. -- Mark Burnett
Just as movies, radio, and television evolved into new forms over time, the ebook will also become something more than just a way to read books. It will become its own specific and unique way of creating and sharing experience. -- David Gerrold
Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things. -- Bill Nye
When I was your age, television was called books. -- William Goldman
I have my television, my books and that becomes my little world. -- Anjelica Huston
When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life. -- A. S. Byatt
Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore? -- Mo Rocca
People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books. -- Annie Dillard
We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books. -- Don DeLillo
I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books. -- Anjelica Huston
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. -- Camille Paglia
Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books. -- Boris Johnson
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. -- Robert M. Hutchins
Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read. -- Bernie Sanders
Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books. -- Kami Garcia
I don't subscribe to the school of thought that as a feature film producer I shouldn't dabble in television, web content, or even comic books ... -- Adi Shankar
It's the best - combining the mediums of television, documentary, and books, to give you this transmedia experience for kids, for families, and for teachers. -- Jeff Corwin
We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore. -- Alexander Kluge

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