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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 realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.

I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.

It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.

A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.

Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.

I love watching great TV, whether it's to educate myself more on my craft or to just simply be entertained.

Reading is a huge part of life.