“I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.”
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Famous Matthew Specktor Quotes
“I do have complicated feelings about Hollywood, but I also have tremendously affectionate ones.”
“Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.”
“It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.”
“Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.”
“We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.”
“I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.”
“The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.”
“Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.”