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"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."
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"What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage."
"You're much shorter than my mom.""Brat," she said, surprised into a giggle."That's no way to talk to a vampire.""Bloodsucking brat.""Better" he said."
"But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended."
"An Assassin, a real Assassin, had to look like one - black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?"
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"It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud."
"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."
"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."
"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews."
"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."
"Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question."
"But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time."
"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."
"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."
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