Matthew Specktor Quotes

• I heard a story the other night about an editor who visited the Iowa Workshop and, when asked what sorts of books she published, replied, "Classic books." One of the students asked her, "You mean like Kafka?" Apparently she said, "Oh, I don't think I would publish Kafka."

  Matthew Specktor

  Book, Mean, Night

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• Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

  Matthew Specktor

  Book, Nothing To Lose, Written

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• I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and that's the kind of authority that writes books.

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  Libro, Escribir, Dar

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• Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don't. Even in the book industry.

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  Book, Trying, Tvs

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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 can write dialogue!

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  Escritura, Personas, Ficción

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• It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

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  Enough, Novel, Know How

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• I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

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  Writing, Thinking, Fiction

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• These are the kind of movies that only a real apparatchik, someone who thinks that corporations are people, could love.

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  Real, Pensamiento, Gente

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• During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of this.

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  People, Culture, Casualties

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• There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."

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  Wall, Believe, People

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• I think having power ingrains people with a conservatism. There's a tendency to hedge one's bets. (Which explains a lot, actually, about why the movie business is the way it is, and why the publishing industry is too.)

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  Pensamiento, Gente, Camino

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• No me siento cohibido por lo que viene después. No me preocupa. Sé lo que es ser ignorado, y sé lo que es no serlo.

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  Self, Care, Next

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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. It's so easy to get stricken with one kind of self-consciousness or another.

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  Writing, Self, Kind

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• People don't seem to have a problem with a romanticized New York, in fact that's almost all they ever do, in some sense, is romanticize that place. Los Angeles deserves the same courtesy.

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  People, Problem, Los Angeles

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• Crecí con sentimientos encontrados sobre Los Ángeles, pero me encanta. Crecí siendo aleccionado por Woody Allen, por ejemplo, de que Los Ángeles era absurda, digna de ridículo y desprecio. La mayoría de la gente parece describir Los Ángeles como algo elementalmente despreciable, o como un lugar que requiere una disculpa.

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  Apology, People, Feelings

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• I've always felt that the basic unit of writing fiction is the sentence, and the basic unit of the screenplay is the scene.

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  Writing, Scene

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• We're a culture that's obsessed with people who make and who squander ridiculous amounts of wealth, which seemed an obsession well worth interrogating in a novel. That probably accounts for what some have called the book's "sweeping" feel, but I don't know that I set out to be cinematic. I wouldn't know how to do that in a novel, specifically.

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  People, Culture, Ridiculous

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• I think it's what fiction is for: to illuminate that gap between our secret selves and our more visible and apparent ones.

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  Thinking, Secret

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

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  Comprender

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• A Good Soldier is one of my favorite novels, for various reasons. But the class question is a good one, because it's not always easy to empathize with privileged people.

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  People, Soldier, My Favorite

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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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  Literature, Shows, Humane

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• Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.

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  Sacrifice, Decision, Literature

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• Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

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  Quality (Calidad)

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

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  Writing, Imagine, Multinationals

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• When I moved to SF in my early 20s, I loved it, but I was absolutely astonished to discover that people there hated L.A. I was just like why? Really? I had no idea.

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  Ideas, People, Hated

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