Reading Vs Watching Quotes

You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?

It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time.

I'm not one of those people that goes into the movies that are based off of books going, 'I know what this is really about.' I want to go and have a good time.

I can write any kind of novel I want, any time, and sell it, but there's not that many people watching it. Even a low-rated TV show is a couple million more people than read my books. You want to be read, in essence. If you're a television writer, you're a writer and you want people to read your stuff. You're still reaching a bigger audience, that way. That's a philosophical way to look at it.

When you read a play, the words speak to you. When you read a script, there's no way you can tell if that's the way that movie will turn out.

When you read the book, you paint the picture but when you adapt a book then the audience will, by and large, say the book was better and every filmmaker knows this.

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

I do not think that there need be the conflict between books and videos, that one would drive out the other. It certainly is possible to watch the screen for some things and for others to sit down and read, because the screen is easier to do, to watch is easier than to read because you don't have to contemplate anything. Someone else has done the work of putting it on the video.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.