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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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Matthew Specktor

Matthew Specktor is an accomplished American novelist born on December 21, 1966. His works are known for their profound character development and unique narrative style, which have earned him a dedicated following. more

“Saying you're a pop group isn't saying very much. Personally, when I think of pop, I think of instant, accessible, catchy songs - I definitely identify our music as that. I think that by writing pop, or instant, accessible or hopefully catchy music, it shoes you into bigger audiences because it seems that more people like that music. I think the possibilities are endless if you stick to a simplistic short song; the music can be as wild and bizarre as you want it to be, as long as at the core of it, there's something really strong.”

People Thinking Writing Long Song Strong Audience Possibility Hopefully Instant Bizarre Catchy

Author:Ed MacFarlane

“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.”

People Culture Wealth Novel Ridiculous Obsession Obsessed

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.”

Writing Scene

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.”

Writing Pleasure Scene Exciting

Author:Matthew Specktor

“I grew up with such mixed feelings about LA, but I do love it. I grew up lectured by Woody Allen, for example, that LA was absurd, worthy of ridicule and contempt. Most people seem to describe Los Angeles as elementally despicable, or as someplace that requires an apology.”

People Feelings Worthy Absurd Los Angeles Contempt Apology Ridicule Woody Mixed Feelings

Author:Matthew Specktor

“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.”

People Problem Deserve Los Angeles Courtesy

Author:Matthew Specktor

“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.”

Quality

Author:Matthew Specktor

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