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Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

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.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy...

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.

I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.

I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

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