Garrison Keillor Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Garrison Keillor quotes and sayings page 3 (82 year old writer). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 38 we have for him.
“I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.”
“A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.”
“A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.”
“I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.”
“Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.”
“I want to resume the life of a shy person.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.”
“When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.”
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