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> [It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-specktor/it-s-hard-enough-to-make-a-novel-a-novel-i-wouldn-t-know-how-to-make/)

[Matthew Specktor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-specktor/)

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## More by Matthew Specktor

> [We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-specktor/we-go-to-literature-because-it-shows-us-some-set-of-humane-values-it/)

[Matthew Specktor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-specktor/)

> [I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-specktor/i-ve-always-found-too-that-somewhere-in-whatever-you-ve-just-written/)

[Matthew Specktor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-specktor/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-specktor/my-own-sense-is-that-fiction-is-inching-its-way-over-to-join-poetry/)

[Matthew Specktor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-specktor/)

> [It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-specktor/it-s-hard-to-imagine-there-s-a-place-for-great-writing-inside-a/)

[Matthew Specktor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-specktor/)

> [Our need to identify with representative figures is something that never goes away. We still find those in novels. We find those in television.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-specktor/our-need-to-identify-with-representative-figures-is-something-that/)

[Matthew Specktor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-specktor/)

> [100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or later, spectacle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-specktor/100-million-dollars-used-to-be-the-limit-of-what-a-movie-might-cost/)

[Matthew Specktor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-specktor/)

> [A lot of talent, a lot of the currency that movies used to have, has spilled over into TV. People talk about TV the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-specktor/a-lot-of-talent-a-lot-of-the-currency-that-movies-used-to-have-has/)

[Matthew Specktor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-specktor/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-specktor/much-to-my-surprise-there-s-a-sense-for-people-in-the-cable-industry/)

[Matthew Specktor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-specktor/)

> [Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-specktor/even-though-i-think-writers-can-sometimes-thrive-from-being-misread/)

[Matthew Specktor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-specktor/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-specktor/i-m-going-to-write-what-i-feel-like-writing-which-is-a-great-place-to/)

[Matthew Specktor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-specktor/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-specktor/the-feature-film-business-the-studio-film-business-feels-to-me-like/)

[Matthew Specktor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-specktor/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-specktor/there-s-a-kind-of-perverseness-or-betrayal-in-that-idea-that-art-is/)

[Matthew Specktor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-specktor/)

> [Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-specktor/great-books-are-written-from-a-sense-that-there-is-nothing-to-lose/)

[Matthew Specktor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-specktor/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-specktor/the-90s-were-a-time-when-not-just-the-movie-business-but-every-aspect/)

[Matthew Specktor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-specktor/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-specktor/hollywood-is-famous-for-breeding-monsters-and-having-worked-in-the/)

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