Tod Goldberg

I found myself thinking a lot about my own spirituality. What it means to be Jewish, what it means to forgive, what…

— Tod Goldberg

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…

— Tod Goldberg

I think my philosophy has evolved over the years. I started teaching almost 15 years ago and I've learned that how one…

— Tod Goldberg

We understand a person with problems, someone who is wrong about a lot of things in his or her life, who makes…

— Tod Goldberg

You don't see Los Angeles erecting a museum dedicated to the birth place of the Crips and the Bloods and the Mexican…

— Tod Goldberg

“The danger of drawing parallels is that some things are always inequalities.”

— Tod Goldberg

We like the idea of a guy who gets away with it ("it" in this case being a variety of things: murder,…

— Tod Goldberg

“Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his…

— Tod Goldberg

So for a long time, I did a lot of freelance writing in addition to writing fiction and such - I was…

— Tod Goldberg

The fact is, though, what I think we really like is Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and James Gandolfini. We…

— Tod Goldberg

“I think you two forgot how to love each other, and that’s just like poison. Worst thing you can do is forgot…

— Tod Goldberg

It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew…

— Tod Goldberg

There's an old, private cemetery here in Palm Springs, where I live, just down the street from the airport, that belongs to…

— Tod Goldberg

I was thinking a lot about the aftermath of bad choices, how people deal with the trauma of having survived trauma, if…

— Tod Goldberg

My god, people are selling their work and people are reading it! The horror! That MFA programs have to advertise that they'll…

— Tod Goldberg

“I think that there are reasons people fall in love over and over again. It’s that feeling that someone wants to always…

— Tod Goldberg

The best piece of advice I ever received about being a writer came from my brother Lee. I was just starting out…

— Tod Goldberg

All of which is mostly bullshit. The reality is that it's just like any other Ponzi scheme: the guys at the top…

— Tod Goldberg

“There was a sweetness in my voice I found nauseating. I made a note to myself never to have children. Or at…

— Tod Goldberg

Particularly with MFA students, who have so much invested - literally and figuratively - I feel like honest criticism is something they're…

— Tod Goldberg

“There are limits, you know. A person can only be pressed so far until they crumble.”

— Tod Goldberg

I was aware that I had to pay off things in a convincing emotional fashion, that I had to address the lingering…

— Tod Goldberg

I'm not Pollyanna - I know that my personality and my opinions and how I approach the teaching of writing maybe isn't…

— Tod Goldberg

The rise of the anti-hero can be traced to a litany of social reasons. Post World War I, for instance, saw the…

— Tod Goldberg

“I’m going to hold you forever, until time doesn’t matter, until we are nothing but dust, until the earth, the sun, the…

— Tod Goldberg