Quotes from Ira Glass

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it's just not that good. It's trying to be good, it has potential, but it's not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer.

perfectionism is the need to be right instead of being liked

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

uncorny, human sized drama

Force yourself through the work, force the skills to comes; that's the hardest phase; I feel like your problem is that you're trying to judge all things in abstract before you do them. That is your tragic mistake.

It's gonna take a while. It's normal to take a while. You've just gotta fight your way through.

Food for thought

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.