Ira Glass Way Quotations

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.

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.

You just have to fight your way through.

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.