More quotes by Garrison Keillor

"When in doubt, look intelligent."
"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."
"A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing."
"A book is a gift you can open again and again."
"Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore."