― John Truby, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
“There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else’s. That’s a difficult statement to live up to, but then I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.”
― Tom Waits
THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY 