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Ira Glass
American
Journalist
About the author
But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
Ira Glass,
American
Journalist
#Time
#People
#Public
#Problems
#Being
Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?
Ira Glass,
American
Journalist
#Fun
In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
Ira Glass,
American
Journalist
#People
#Day
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
Ira Glass,
American
Journalist
#Question
#Fiction
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
Ira Glass,
American
Journalist
#Question
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
Ira Glass,
American
Journalist
#Needs
#Purpose
#Question
#Fiction
#Driving
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
Ira Glass,
American
Journalist
#Love
#Fun
You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
Ira Glass,
American
Journalist
#Word
#Space
One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.
Ira Glass,
American
Journalist
#People
#Public
#Forget
#World
#Reason
We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
Ira Glass,
American
Journalist
#Family
#Money
When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
Ira Glass,
American
Journalist
#People
#Saying
#Effect
#Funny
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
Ira Glass,
American
Journalist