When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is… — 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
If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller. — 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
