Ira Glass Quotes

"Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?"
- Ira Glass
(Related: 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
(Related: 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
(Related: Fiction, Question)

"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."
- Ira Glass
(Related: Question)

"Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question."
- Ira Glass
(Related: Purpose, Driving, Fiction, Needs, Question)

"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
(Related: Love, Fun)

"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."
- Ira Glass
(Related: Space, Word)

"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
(Related: People, Forget, Public, Reason, World)

"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews."
- Ira Glass
(Related: Money, Family)

"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
(Related: Funny, People, Effect, Saying)

"I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio."
- Ira Glass