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
Powdermilk biscuits: Heavens, they're tasty and expeditious! They're made from whole wheat, to give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done
It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town, out here on the edge of the prairie
one of the amazing experiences of my young life.
Winter: It's not just a season, it's who we are.
A good friend is a person who thinks you're one of the good eggs, even if he knows you're a little cracked.
Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.
God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.
Give up your good 'Christian' life and follow Jesus
That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.
In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.
Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.
I thought A Prairie Home Companion would be an interesting thing to do for a summer or so. Public radio was just seven years old in 1974. It was a tiny organization in which a lot of things got started simply because there was all this time to fill. If you wanted to do an hour on Lithuanian folk dancing, you probably could have done it.
TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle
Eating a little was like vomiting a little, just as bad as a lot.