We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.
Garrison KeillorWhen 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.
Garrison KeillorWhere I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.
Garrison KeillorEvelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.
Garrison Keillor