Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

Don't wait till you're older, or in some better job than you have now. Don't wait for anything. Don't wait till some magical...idea drops into your lap. That's not where ideas come from. Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.

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

I dont take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

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.

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