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I’m from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.

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Matthew Quick

The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do.

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Matthew Quick

I always talk to young writers about when you make art in your room, you make art. And when you send it to New York and L.A., you have to be a professional. Of course, when you sell your book rights as an option for a movie, you have to be a professional about that.

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Matthew Quick

When I travel round the country, people can’t place my accent; if there’s someone in the audience, they’ll be like, ‘You’re from Philadelphia’, but everyone else will say, ‘Where are you from, California?’ I get England sometimes – bizarre!

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Matthew Quick

My tag line for ‘Silver Linings’ is this: It’s about a man who thinks his life is a movie produced by God.

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Matthew Quick

I haven’t taught since 2004, but I taught high school English for seven years, primarily at a place called Haddonfield Memorial, which is in a very well-to-do-community in Southern New Jersey.

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Matthew Quick

I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I’ve had a few of those relationships, which I value highly.

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Matthew Quick

I’m an incredibly emotional person, but I always feel bad about that. The work is therapy… I need to emote wildly while I write. I weep. I’ll laugh, get excited, and get up and pace. I try to take the emotional journey with the characters.

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Matthew Quick

I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever… I always cry at movies, and when I was a kid, I would try to hide it. It wasn’t something a kid in Oaklyn, N.J., did. So I have these weird hang-ups about emotions.

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Matthew Quick

I had thought up the title, ‘The Good Luck of Right Now,’ several years ago. I had no idea what it meant or what the book would be about but I thought, ‘Someday I’m going to write a book with that title.’

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Matthew Quick

When I sit down to write, I don’t think, ‘OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can write, or what is Harvey Weinstein going to want to buy?’ Or even, ‘What are filmgoers going to want.’ I try to think, tell a good story. Just do what you do.

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Matthew Quick

When I wrote ‘Silver Linings,’ I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles and male bonding, but when the book came out, it was surprising to me that the mental health community embraced it.

– Matthew Quick

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