Quotes About Entertainment

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.

When we talk about good books, we often talk about good sentences, but what we rarely talk about is reader pleasure. Yet it is reader pleasure that is going to make a book break out into the kind of success that makes it into a household name.

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a writer has always been to tell a good story and give my readers a good time.

I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.

Should a story be readily told in a PG-13 fashion, it should be for creative, not business, reasons.

It is much easier to do a film about something that the audience readily knows about - say, cricket. It is much more difficult to write a film based on golf.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

I was never a comic-book fan, but I loved cartoons. I don't enjoy reading: for me, it's hard work.

I was reading Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'. It's one of my favourites.

I always found when I was reading an interview with an actor that I wasn't interested in their political opinions - I just wanted to know what they'd had for breakfast.

If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that's it. You're not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You're not going to read that book again.

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.

Everybody has that outlet in life when they're going through different stuff. They like to do different stuff whether it's reading books or watching movies. My outlet was going to comic books because it got me out of this world and put me into that world and let me use my imagination.

I don't claim to have all the answers; after all, I'm just a comedian who reads a lot.

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

The thing with Netflix is everyone who reads this article can go to Netflix, watch 'Live in Oakland' and come to D.C. and see me do a different show. It's a constant source of people getting to know me.

The fact that Eddie Vedder likes to play 3 hour plus shows a night, I have to be ready for that.

I'm glad Reagan is president. Of course, I'm a professional comedian.

Try, if you will, to imagine Dwight Eisenhower or JFK or Lyndon Johnson or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan chin-wagging with Jack Paar or Johnny Carson. Richard Nixon did, famously, go on 'Laugh In' in 1968, but as a candidate; and to his credit, he rued the day and hated every second of it.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.