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.
Matthew SpecktorI was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.
Matthew SpecktorGood fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.
Matthew SpecktorUsually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.
Matthew Specktor