Learning Quote by Matthew Specktor

“Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.”

Matthew Specktor

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We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.

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I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next.

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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…

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It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.

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Our need to identify with representative figures is something that never goes away. We still find those in novels. We find those in television.…

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100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or later, spectacle…

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A lot of talent, a lot of the currency that movies used to have, has spilled over into TV. People talk about TV the…

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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…

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Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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