Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.
Anna QuindlenStichwörter: reading children solitude entertainment readers amusement
For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?
Clare B. DunkleStichwörter: war entertainment media game-shows reality-television
If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.
Noël CowardStichwörter: writing philosophy entertainment opinion drama craft surreptitious-meaning
A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest himself in the characters and is concerned to see how they act in given circumstances, and what happens to them; he sympathizes with their troubles and is gladdened by their joys; he puts himself in their place and, to an extent, lives their lives. Their view of life, their attitude to the great subjects of human speculation, whether stated in words or shown in action, call forth in him a reaction of surprise, of pleasure or of indignation. But he knows instinctively where his interest lies and he follows it as surely as a hound follows the scent of a fox. Sometimes, through the author's failure, he loses the scent. Then he flounders about till he finds it again. He skips.
W. Somerset MaughamStichwörter: reading entertainment diversion skipping
I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: literature is only something you get at school as an assignment. No one reads for fun, or to be subversive or to get turned on to something. It's just like doing math at school. I mean, how often do we sit down and do trigonometry for fun, to relax. I've thought about this, the domination of the literary arts by theory over the past 25 years -- which I detest -- and it's as if you have to be a critic to mediate between the author and the reader and that's utter crap. Literature can be great in all ways, but it's just entertainment like rock'n'roll or a film. It is entertainment. If it doesn't capture you on that level, as entertainment, movement of plot, then it doesn't work. Nothing else will come out of it. The beauty of the language, the characterisation, the structure, all that's irrelevant if you're not getting the reader on that level -- moving a story. If that's friendly to readers, I cop to it.
T. Coraghessan BoyleStichwörter: writing literature entertainment creative-process enjoyment
In 1994, the average person spent $79 on books as compared to $56 on recorded music.
Richard L. BrandtStichwörter: books entertainment media
I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies.
A.W. TozerStichwörter: entertainment amusement evangelism
People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.
Jess C. ScottStichwörter: humor entertainment media television dark-humor mass-media herd-mentality sheep pop-culture sheeple hype mindlessness mainstream-media sheep-mentality
This is a perfect example of how entirely out of hand the women in this country have gotten. You act like men aren't anything more than extraneous amusements, little toys to keep you entertained.
Susan Elizabeth PhillipsStichwörter: men women entertainment toys amusements
A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.
Orrin WoodwardStichwörter: life learning entertainment
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