Radio has contributed to our ‘growing lack of attention.’ .?.?. This sort of hopscotching existence makes it almost impossible for people, myself included, to sit down and get into a novel again. We have become a short story reading people, or, worse than that, a QUICK reading people
Ray Bradbury, 1951 letter to Richard Matheson, as quoted in "Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted", Amy E. Boyle Johnston, LA Weekly, Wednesday, May 30, 2007.