Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually … - Matthew Specktor

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There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.

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!

Fiction, Good, People, Writers, Writing

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We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.

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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.

Art, Betrayal, Kind, Take, Write, Writing

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.

Child, Children, Give, Having, Men, Writing

I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.

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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.

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