“Over the years, my relatives have been cautious
about sharing details of family history with me, knowing the business I'm in,
knowing that writers are vacuum cleaners who suck up other people's lives and
weave them into stories like a sparrow builds a nest from scraps. People meet
writers and are bowled over when the writer is friendly to them and invites
them to his house for a glass of wine or to shoot up heroin or whatever they
do, and they talk their heads off, and a year later it comes out in a book, and
there follow years of bitter and fruitless litigation, and that is why you
should always keep a writer at arm's length.” ―"Longtime "Prairie Home Companion" radio host (and novelist) Garrison Keillor, “Clearing Up a Few Things,” Time Magazine, March 28, 2004(Garrison Keillor pictured here during a rainy 2007 outdoor broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion.)
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