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.
Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose. - Matthew Specktor
Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.
- Matthew Specktor
Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or neces… - Matthew Specktor
Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or neces…
We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live. - Matthew Specktor
We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.
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 kin… - 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 kin…
You look at the absolute scorn that gets poured on a fallen celebrity, whether it's Tom Cruise or Lindsay Lohan or Marlon Brando, or Elvis when he go… - Matthew Specktor
You look at the absolute scorn that gets poured on a fallen celebrity, whether it's Tom Cruise or Lindsay Lohan or Marlon Brando, or Elvis when he go…
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
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 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
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 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 chi… - 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 chi…
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… - 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…
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