The natural state of all writing is mediocrity

“It’s hard to make something that’s interesting. It’s really, really hard. … Basically, anything that anyone makes. … It’s like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that’s written or anything that’s created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity. It’s all tending toward mediocrity in the same way that all atoms are sort of dissipating out toward the expanse of the universe. … So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will. … That feels exactly the same now as it did the first week of the show.” ~ Ira Glass