Quotes About Current events

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

I don't even read the papers. I read 'USA Today' because it has color photos.

I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.

I understand that it's incredibly difficult to watch what's happening on the news every day and not become inured to it. I've fallen victim to that myself, wanting to look away.

Id always read newspapers for pleasure, then it became my job. These days I will read the news with half a mind on what I can use. It means I get quite a warped sense of whats going on in the world.

CNN will always be the channel people turn on when wars and horrible disasters happen. The 'trick' is getting people to also want to watch it when there aren't hundreds or thousands of people somewhere in the world currently in mortal peril.

Writers are not obliged to deal with current events, but it happens that the big story of our times - the al-Qaida attacks on New York and the Pentagon, and the subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - is being told in some of the greatest books of our time.

Chaos is good for CNN.

I'm not a real sports guy, but I check ESPN.com just so I know what people are talking about.

I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

For years I have read the morning paper and harrumphed. There's a lot to harrumph about now.

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

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

History is past politics, and politics is present history.

I've always wanted to do more significant stuff. I think of myself as well-informed, but the hardest thing to do is talk about politics and current events and be funny and not just preachy.

Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I'm post-tweeting today. I'll start as soon as my fingers unclench from their rage fists.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

I don't make jokes, I just watch the government and report the facts.

When you go out for drinks, tell people to bring in a news story that made them say "Oh my god." Talk about it.