Emotional Quote by Ira Glass

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone…

— Ira Glass

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

— Ira Glass

Writing for radio really focuses the mind, because you can't rely on thinking "Oh, just pull a funny face at the end of this…

— David Walliams

Radio leaves much to the audience's imagination, allows the listeners to fill in so much, provided that the voices convey enough.

— Agnes Moorehead

Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

— Billy Collins

I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels…

— Orson Welles

If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You…

— Terry Gross

Radio is about emotion.

— Ed Schultz

I am sort of proud that I think radio has become a dominant influence in shaping public opinion. Good radio paints the picture for…

— Rush Limbaugh

Radio is the medium that most closely approximates the experience of reading. As a novelist, I find it very exciting to be able to…

— Daniel Alarcon

As for radio and movies, I like the movies better, although the work is much harder. The cinema has microphone technique, staging, and glamour…

— Rudy Vallee

Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the…

— Mercedes McCambridge