I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties.… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I think the thing that I wish somebody would ask me is just to ask about the business side of the radio show. I… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
