Ira Glass Quotes

My stories seem to always in some way explore mistakes and misapprehensions and the possibility of redemption - though that redemption doesn't always occur in expected ways.

Bad choices make good stories.

Bad choices make good stories.

For me, a story always goes out of a mistake. Somebody makes a mistake, and that becomes the story. Probably that explains why my series are kind of dark: because there's a problem to begin with.

I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.

I have made a lot of mistakes.

'Junkhearts' is a great story.

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

The truth is, we are all human, and we all make mistakes.

We all make mistakes. God knows I've made more than anyone else I know.

I've made mistakes, and I'm very aware of them, and I've tried to better myself from those mistakes.

Everyone knows what it's like to make the wrong decision for the right reasons. For me, wrong decisions are the heart of drama - a character who's always making the right decisions is boring.

We all make mistakes. Sometimes people slip, but that doesn't mean they're not worthy of the support.

We're all human beings; people make mistakes.

We are all human, and mistakes are just around the corner, but experience lets you try to avoid them.

In this life you make mistakes, and some people make more than others.

A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

The heart responds to the conflict within a story.

I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.