“These are the kind of movies that only a real apparatchik, someone who thinks that corporations are people, could love.” PeopleThinkingKindRealCorporations 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
“It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time” KnowsHardEnoughNovelKnow How 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
“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.” TryingStillsBookTvsIndustryConvince 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
“Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.” BookLosesWrittenGreat BookNothing To Lose Author:Matthew Specktor
“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.)” PeopleThinkingWayIndustryTendenciesPublishingConservatismMovie BusinessPublishing Industry Author:Matthew Specktor
“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.” KnowsFeelsSelfCareNextConsciousDon't CareI Don't CareIgnoredSelf Conscious 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