Filler Content Quotes

Cable news is 24 hours long, so you have to fill it up with something.

Criticism is nonsense. TV shows and newspapers just want to fill the space.

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

It's strange how extras have become such a big part of the business. I don't know what I think of it. I mean, some of them are great, most of them are filler.

No news is good news unless you have to fill 5 minutes.

There's still too much filler, copycat programming that's out there. We work so hard to pioneer new ideas, and then those ideas are just regurgitated by other networks. That's not good for anybody, I think. That's not good for our business. That's not good for our audience.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get you anywhere.

I like a novel to have a certain amount of dead time and filler - unremarkable scenery, descriptions of getting from point A to point B, dialogue in which not much is said - in between the parts that are electric. With a long work that you don't read in one sitting, I think that makes for the best reading experience.