“It was a pleasure to have somebody else be the boss. It wouldn't have been nearly as much fun any other way. He's been around and made a lot of movies and he's a great straightforward person to work for. And it was a pleasure to see other people to pick up characters that you've sketched out loosely on paper and make them into something fascinating.” PeopleWayPersonsHas BeensMadeCharacterFunPleasurePaperPicksFascinatingBossStraightforward Author:Garrison Keillor
“I think there's a lot of power in listening to one person talking to you. And this should never be underestimated.One person sitting and talking to you and, you're pulled in, in ways that technology and art and all cannot.” ThinkingWayShouldPersonsArtTalkingTechnologyListeningSittingUnderestimated Author:Garrison Keillor
“A boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because it meant that his parents stopped arguing. That was an eye-opener for me. You work hard to polish your act and then you find out that it does people good in ways you couldn't predict.” PeopleWayDoeHardEyeParentBoysHard WorkNewsRadioArguingLakesPolishLake Wobegon Author:Garrison Keillor
“The audience is invisible and that's good. Somewhere my voice is drifting through a swine barn and the sound of it seems to perk up the sows' appetite. Or a lady is listening on headphones as she jogs along a beach, running to my cadence. Or a dog sits in front of the radio, head cocked, and the sibilants excite him in some mysterious way. A dog's humorist, that's me.” WaySeemsRunningSoundVoiceAudienceDogFrontsListeningRadioInvisibleMysteriousBeachAppetiteDriftingHumoristsPerksBarnsCadenceSwineHeadphonesMysterious Ways Author:Garrison Keillor
“Never insult a writer. You may find yourself immortalized in ways you may not appreciate.” WayMayAppreciateInsultFinding Yourself Author:Garrison Keillor
“When the New Yorker turned down work, they turned it down in such an elaborately gentlemanly way making apologies for their own shortsightedness. Undoubtedly it was their fault but somehow for some reason this fell short of the remarkably high standard that you by your own work have set for yourself. They had a way of rejecting my work that made me feel sorry for them somehow.” WayFeelsMadeReasonStandardsFaultsSorryApologyNew YorkersRejectingHigh StandardsTurned DownGentlemanly Author:Garrison Keillor
“Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.” WaySufferingEasterDisappointingHamFunny EasterEaster Season Author:Garrison Keillor
“Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and plunge on. Writing is a means of discovery, always.” WayWritingTryingMeanLinesMistakeTearsPagesDiscoveryMaking MistakesStarting OverPlunge Author:Garrison Keillor
“Some people think it is difficult to be a Christian and to laugh, but I think it's the other way around. God writes a lot of comedy, its just that he has so many bad actors.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingChristianActorsDifficultLaughingComedyTheologian Author:Garrison Keillor
“We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well. It's when you are trying to convince another person to think the same way that you do that there is friction and trouble between people. But when you feel that the other person is dumber than dirt, too dumb for words - why waste your breath - you get along pretty well. There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsTryingWellsPersonsDifferentReasonStrongTroubleWasteBreathsSuperiorsDumbReason WhyLakesConvinceDirtMisunderstandingFrictionTrying HardDifferent FaithsLake Wobegon Author:Garrison Keillor
“When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch with how things look and what people say and what they call their dogs.” PeopleWorldWayWantWritingLooksBeautifulLosesDogSurface Author:Garrison Keillor
