Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keilloris an American author, storyteller, humorist, radio actor, voice actor, and radio personality. He is known as creator of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion, which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including Lake Wobegon Days and Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in A...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth7 August 1942
CityAnoka, MN
CountryUnited States of America
I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
Being rich and thin isn't everything.
Don't worry about the past and don't try to solve the future.
... I never was one to get upset about a few scratches on a motor vehicle, it is meant to be used, not saved.
Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.
Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.
One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who dont understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.
... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
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.
Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.
Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.
Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.