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 think having power ingrains people with a conservatism. There's a tendency to hedge one's bets. (Which explains a lot, actually, about… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
You look at the absolute scorn that gets poured on a fallen celebrity, whether it's Tom Cruise or Lindsay Lohan or Marlon… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Every snotty egotistical teenager thinks they're smarter than the world they crawled out of. It didn't take me so long to grow… — 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
These are the kind of movies that only a real apparatchik, someone who thinks that corporations are people, could love. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I think it's what fiction is for: to illuminate that gap between our secret selves and our more visible and apparent ones. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I think being central to the culture is overrated. Who really gives a damn if something is popular? Jay-Z isn't actually any… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not. — 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
