I heard a story the other night about an editor who visited the Iowa Workshop and, when asked what sorts of books she published, replied, "Classic books." One of the students asked her, "You mean like Kafka?" Apparently she said,… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
