I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.
Matthew SpecktorThere'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.
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