Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway. Garrison Keillor More Quotes by Garrison Keillor More Quotes From Garrison Keillor Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem. Garrison Keillor nuisance cracks book I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the age of 30 I don't think there is any obligation to be clever at all. Garrison Keillor clever past thinking Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender. Garrison Keillor feelings sometimes people A boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because it meant that his parents stopped arguing. That was an eye-opener for me. You work hard to polish your act and then you find out that it does people good in ways you couldn't predict. Garrison Keillor hard-work eye boys I felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids. Garrison Keillor generations kids world I feel it's so hard for young actors; It's a different world that they're coming up in; there's so much money to be made off of their personal lives, and people are bound and determined to make that money. Garrison Keillor actors different people I like to sing and it's just really fun to sing, and I don't get too much. And at my house I'm not allowed to because, you know, your children can't stand it when you sing at home. Garrison Keillor home fun children It's confidence; it has to be something good about getting old. One of the things is that you just don't stress about some stuff that made you so worried. Garrison Keillor worried stress stuff The audience is invisible and that's good. Somewhere my voice is drifting through a swine barn and the sound of it seems to perk up the sows' appetite. Or a lady is listening on headphones as she jogs along a beach, running to my cadence. Or a dog sits in front of the radio, head cocked, and the sibilants excite him in some mysterious way. A dog's humorist, that's me. Garrison Keillor dog running beach It was a pleasure to have somebody else be the boss. It wouldn't have been nearly as much fun any other way. He's been around and made a lot of movies and he's a great straightforward person to work for. And it was a pleasure to see other people to pick up characters that you've sketched out loosely on paper and make them into something fascinating. Garrison Keillor fun character people I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore. Garrison Keillor laptops impossible writing Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and on an opera make me seriously want to retire and find a volunteer job as a docent at the zoo explaining to schoolchildren where frogs go in the winter. Garrison Keillor teaching zoos jobs I'm a lucky guy. I get to sit around every day and indulge in make believe and get paid for it. Garrison Keillor indulge-in guy believe I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do. Garrison Keillor frustration writing people I usually don't work with other people; I do the whole show myself. Garrison Keillor whole shows people When you come to expect humor of people, you will never get it. Garrison Keillor people There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family. Garrison Keillor writing book fiction I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid contact with others who did not share our faith. Garrison Keillor stressed share people You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away. Garrison Keillor sound writing giving I meant to pat her back after she told me about her unhappiness and her shirt was open and my hand went up it about six inches. She recoiled, i apologized. I sent her an email of apology later and she replied that she had forgiven me ... We continued to be friendly right up until her lawyer called. Garrison Keillor latest-headlines
