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" I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep. "
Matthew Quick
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" 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. "
Matthew Quick
Need
Laugh
Journey
" 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.' "
Matthew Quick
Book
Thought
Luck
" The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves. "
Matthew Quick
Story
Health
Mental Health
" When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent. "
Matthew Quick
Morning
Family
Work
" 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. "
Matthew Quick
Professional
You
Art
" 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
Book
Mental Health
Health
" 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. "
Matthew Quick
Society
Value
Write
" 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! "
Matthew Quick
California
You
Travel
" My tag line for 'Silver Linings' is this: It's about a man who thinks his life is a movie produced by God. "
Matthew Quick
Man
Silver
God
" 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. "
Matthew Quick
Movies
Man
Hide
" The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I've struggled with depression and anxiety. I'm very interested in how we deal with that. "
Matthew Quick
Anxiety
Depression
Health
" The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do. "
Matthew Quick
Important
Doing
Artist
" 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. "
Matthew Quick
School
High
High School
" I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it. "
Matthew Quick
Time
School
Teacher