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“Audiences love both the feeling part (reliving the life) and the thinking part (figuring out the puzzle) of a story. Every good story has both.”
― John Truby, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller

“To empathize with someone means to care about and understand him. That’s why the trick to keeping the audience’s interest in a character, even when the character is not likable or is taking immoral actions, is to show the audience the hero’s motive.”
― John Truby, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller

“The multistrand plot is clearly a much more simultaneous form of storytelling, emphasizing the group, or the minisociety, and how the characters compare.”
― John Truby, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men