Ira Glass
Ira Glass
Ira Jeffrey Glassis an American public radio personality and the host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth3 March 1959
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
college class fiction
I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
ideas people stories
I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
worried conversation persons
I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.
i-can
I can only control what I can control.
voice care sound
I dont take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.
like-you compelling humans
Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.
stories radio different
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
ambition fighting way
It is only by going through a volume of work that... your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I've ever met. It's gonna take awhile. It's normal to take awhile. You've just gotta fight your way through.
block pigs sun
I seen a pig so big it’d block out the sun.
issues interesting radio
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
fun loud carver
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
purpose fiction radio
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
writing creating lucky
If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.
trying want stuff
You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.