Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
A Good Soldier is one of my favorite novels, for various reasons. But the class question is a good one, because it's… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
A lot of talent, a lot of the currency that movies used to have, has spilled over into TV. People talk about… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
We're a culture that's obsessed with people who make and who squander ridiculous amounts of wealth, which seemed an obsession well worth… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I heard a story the other night about an editor who visited the Iowa Workshop and, when asked what sorts of books… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share
I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share
My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share
It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share
Our need to identify with representative figures is something that never goes away. We still find those in novels. We find those in television.… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share
100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or later, spectacle… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share
A lot of talent, a lot of the currency that movies used to have, has spilled over into TV. People talk about TV the… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share
Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share
Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share
I'm going to write what I feel like writing, which is a great place to be. But it can be hard to get there.… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share
The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share
There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share
The '90s were a time when not just the movie business, but every aspect of American life, became a lot more corporate. There's a… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share
Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share
