“I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything abou...” — Ira Glass Quote

“I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.”

“Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.”

“I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.”

“Trump would have us revise and edit our historical memory of 9/11, turning it from a unifying narrative of heroism, tragedy, and war and recast it to serve the political ends of a man unworthy of the presidency.”

“In an interview, I lose control even of what I am, for it is the interviewer who edits me, finally, into what he thinks I am, and never have I been happy with someone else's version of my life after that person has spent an entire two or three hours fathoming it.”

“I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.”