We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live. — Matthew Specktor Books 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 Found 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… — Matthew Specktor Areas Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate. — Matthew Specktor Great writing 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… — Matthew Specktor Figures 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… — Matthew Specktor Cost 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… — Matthew Specktor Book 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… — Matthew Specktor Be good 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 Giving 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… — Matthew Specktor Consciousness 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… — Matthew Specktor Business 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… — Matthew Specktor Art Copy Share Image
Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose. — Matthew Specktor Book Copy Share Image
The '90s were a time when not just the movie business, but every aspect of American life, became a lot more corporate.… — Matthew Specktor American life Copy Share Image
Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have… — Matthew Specktor Business Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and… — Matthew Specktor Authority Copy Share Image
The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment. — Matthew Specktor Impediments Copy Share Image
When I moved to SF in my early 20s, I loved it, but I was absolutely astonished to discover that people there… — Matthew Specktor Early 20s Copy Share Image
One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city. — Matthew Specktor Cities 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 Business Copy Share Image
It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time — Matthew Specktor Books Copy Share Image
I do have complicated feelings about Hollywood, but I also have tremendously affectionate ones. — Matthew Specktor Affectionate Copy Share Image
I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general. — Matthew Specktor Business Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the basic unit of writing fiction is the sentence, and the basic unit of the screenplay is the… — Matthew Specktor Movie Copy Share Image
During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of… — Matthew Specktor Casualties Copy Share Image
