“It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.” WritingHardImagineGreat WritingMultinationals Author:Matthew Specktor
“I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.” IfsThinkingWritingSometimesFilmCoursesStuffAnswersFictionWriting Fiction Author:Matthew Specktor
“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!” PeopleWritingMightFictionIndustrySurpriseScriptsBe GoodDialogueCablesFiction Writers Author:Matthew Specktor
“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.” WantGivingWritingKindBookDifferentAuthorityDifferent KindsOverratedPowerlessness Author:Matthew Specktor
“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.” FeelsWritingKindSelfHardEasyConsciousnessSelf ConsciousnessEasy To Get Author:Matthew Specktor
“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 well than it is to take out the garbage.” WritingWellsKindArtImportantIdeasArt IsBetrayalSuperiorsGarbagePerverseness Author:Matthew Specktor
“I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man a stern talking to. Having a child changes things quite a bit.” IfsMenGivingWritingChildrenImportantYoungBitsTalkingYoung Man Author:Matthew Specktor
“I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next.” WritingLyingNextFoundWrittenSeeds Author:Matthew Specktor
“I've always felt that the basic unit of writing fiction is the sentence, and the basic unit of the screenplay is the scene.” WritingScene Author:Matthew Specktor
“I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.” WritingPleasureSceneExciting Author:Matthew Specktor
