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

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 quotes: My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.

My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.

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

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

Matthew Specktor quotes: I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.

I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.

Matthew Specktor quotes: I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be.

I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be.

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

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

Matthew Specktor quotes: I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.

I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.

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

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 quotes: 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."

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."

Matthew Specktor quotes: One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.

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

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

Matthew Specktor quotes: My mom was a screenwriter. I saw a lot of people who didn't seem very fulfilled creatively or otherwise by their roles in the motion picture industry.

My mom was a screenwriter. I saw a lot of people who didn't seem very fulfilled creatively or otherwise by their roles in the motion picture industry.

Matthew Specktor quotes: People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.

People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.

Matthew Specktor quotes: Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

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

Matthew Specktor quotes: The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.

The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.

Matthew Specktor quotes: I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.

I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Matthew Specktor quotes: Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.

Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.

Matthew Specktor quotes: I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.

I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.

Matthew Specktor quotes: Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.

Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.

Matthew Specktor quotes: I do have complicated feelings about Hollywood, but I also have tremendously affectionate ones.

I do have complicated feelings about Hollywood, but I also have tremendously affectionate ones.