Joanna Scott Quotes

People are just obsessed with other people's lives. I don't know whether it's kind of a way to escape their own, or something to follow... I really couldn't tell you.

I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morning. I'll read the front page of 'The New York Times,' then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the 'L.A. Times.'

My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

I find reality television to be so delectable.

People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.

I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

My only vice is 'Keeping up With The Kardashians.' I can't really explain what it is that fascinates me so much, but it just sucks me in.

People respond to something which intrigues them instead of something that gives them all the information - particularly in pop, which is, like, the genre for knowing way too much about everyone and everything.

Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.

We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about our own troubles.

For millennia, human beings have been finding new ways to look at the world through each others' eyes: from projecting ourselves onto the characters in novels or movies to dressing up in costume to devouring the details of some celebrity's life in 'Hello' or 'OK.'

I think people are interested in celebrities because it's easy, disposable entertainment and it's fun escapism.

Fiction should be an ethically safe space, free of fancy ideas. It should be dedicated modestly to relationships or escapism or the needs of luscious voyeurs.

I think most people, including me, like to read gossipy things about others: revealing things that I love to read but I don't really want known about me.

The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other.

That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of fifty-thousand men, the murders, the strikes, the bankruptcies, the fires, the poisonings, the suicides, the divorces, the cruel emotions of statesmen and actors, are transformed for us, who don't even care, into a morning treat, blending in wonderfully, in a particularly exciting and tonic way, with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of cafe au lait.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning . One orients one's attitude toward the either by or by what the world is. The former gives as much security as the latter, in that one knows how one stands.

Once I was seated, I couldn't help people-watching. I'll admit it, I'm an addict from way back.

I smile and play pretend through the Morning Show in the kitchen.

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.

I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year.

Any person that don't read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed.