“There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.” PeopleWritingRealityFormCultureLeftWonderComedyTvsStandardsRomanticHarderEntertainmentGenreClassicLegitimacyReality Tv Author:Nancy Meyers
“Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.” WritingStoriesLightLiteratureEntertainmentPropagandaDetectivesDetective StoriesClassical Literature Author:Steig Larsson
“The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can.” PeopleGivingWritingBookRealityAgeAbleClassGainsEntertainmentExcuseNovelistsHistorianImaginaryFactualBiographersVicarious Book:John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose