They [academy writing programs] have no concept that the world has changed, that publishing has changed, that filmmaking has changed, and if you're not constantly looking at your education model and adjusting for the change, you'll find yourself teaching antiquity.… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
I found myself thinking a lot about my own spirituality. What it means to be Jewish, what it means to forgive, what it means… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share
I think, generally, the flawed anti-hero is much more interesting than the normal hero, and that's really what we're talking about here as it… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share
I think my philosophy has evolved over the years. I started teaching almost 15 years ago and I've learned that how one student learns… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share
We understand a person with problems, someone who is wrong about a lot of things in his or her life, who makes messes. We… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share
You don't see Los Angeles erecting a museum dedicated to the birth place of the Crips and the Bloods and the Mexican Mafia, with… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share
“The danger of drawing parallels is that some things are always inequalities.” — Tod Goldberg Copy Share
We like the idea of a guy who gets away with it ("it" in this case being a variety of things: murder, robbery, general… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share
“Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.” — Tod Goldberg Copy Share
So for a long time, I did a lot of freelance writing in addition to writing fiction and such - I was a food… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share
The fact is, though, what I think we really like is Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and James Gandolfini. We like what… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share
“I think you two forgot how to love each other, and that’s just like poison. Worst thing you can do is forgot how to… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share
It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew I had… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share
There's an old, private cemetery here in Palm Springs, where I live, just down the street from the airport, that belongs to one of… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share
I was thinking a lot about the aftermath of bad choices, how people deal with the trauma of having survived trauma, if that makes… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share
My god, people are selling their work and people are reading it! The horror! That MFA programs have to advertise that they'll let you… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share
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