It does no one any good to say their novel sucks if you don't have an idea how to make it better, how to approach it from different angles and make it work. It's obviously a subjective process, right? But… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
I read an interview with Daniel Woodrell once where he said something like, basically, if people had said what they said to him in a bar instead of workshop, he would have punched them...and I finally understood that when in… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“The danger of drawing parallels is that some things are always inequalities.” — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
