Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.

When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?

Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.

In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.