Garrison Keillor Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

  Garrison Keillor

  Funny, Life, Encouraging

  "Happy to be Here". Book by Garrison Keillor, 1983.

• A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

  Garrison Keillor

  Writing, Ironic, Young Writers

• Some people think it is difficult to be a Christian and to laugh, but I think it's the other way around. God writes a lot of comedy, its just that he has so many bad actors.

  Garrison Keillor

  Christian, Writing, Thinking

• Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and plunge on. Writing is a means of discovery, always.

  Garrison Keillor

  Mistake, Writing, Mean

• When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch with how things look and what people say and what they call their dogs.

  Garrison Keillor

  Beautiful, Dog, Writing

• I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

  Garrison Keillor

  Real, Ignorance, Writing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.

  Garrison Keillor

  Death, Suicide, Writing

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.70, Penguin

• We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.

  Garrison Keillor

  Writing, Thinking, Editors

• A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.

  Garrison Keillor

  True Love, Song, Book

  Garrison Keillor (2004). “Love Me”, p.36, Penguin

• You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away.

  Garrison Keillor

  Writing, Giving, Sound

  "Humor has to surprise us, otherwise it isn't funny". Interview with George Plimpton, blankonblank.org. November 28, 1994.

• I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore.

  Garrison Keillor

  Writing, Laptops, Impossible

  "Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin Talk A Prairie Home Companion". movieweb.com. June 09, 2006.

• I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.

  Garrison Keillor

  Writing, Frustration, People

  Source: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com

• 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

  Jobs, Zoos, Teaching

  Source: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com

• For me, the monologue was the favorite thing I had done in radio. It was based on writing, but in the end it was radio, it was standing up and leaning forward into the dark and talking, letting words come out of you.

  Garrison Keillor

  Writing, Dark, Talking

• I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.

  Garrison Keillor

  New York, Writing, Oysters

• I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.

  Garrison Keillor

  Friday, Morning, Writing

• I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.

  Garrison Keillor

  Writing, Airplane, Airports

• I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.

  Garrison Keillor

  Writing, Thinking, 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

  Book, Writing, Fiction

  "Humor has to surprise us, otherwise it isn't funny". Interview with George Plimpton, blankonblank.org. November 28, 1994.

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