Quotes by ira glass

I'm just not very funny.

Radio is for driving.

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. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world.

I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person, and things happen to them, and then something big happens, and they realize something new.

I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

I'm a cliche.

I like excess. And giant M&M's.