"I've noticed throughout my life, any time an older man steps into my life and is an admirable, caring person, I would just am like, more, more, I want more. And unfortunately, for me, over the years, most of those men, not to feed your paranoia, died," he says. "And so at a point now where I look at it and say, people can't give you what they weren't given."
Matthew Quick is the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook—which was made into an Oscar-winning film—and eight other novels. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention, was an LA Times Book Prize finalist, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a #1 bestseller in Brazil, a Deutscher Jugendliteratur Preis 2016 (German Youth Literature Prize) nominee, and selected by Nancy Pearl as one of Summer’s Best Books for NPR. The Hollywood Reporter has named him one of Hollywood’s 25 Most Powerful Authors.
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Matthew Quick and I Discuss What We Can Learn From Our Bad Wolf and …
- His book, We Are the Light
- What drew him to Jungian analysis and his ideas on synchronicity
- His healing journey and what he learned about himself
- Learning to face his pain from a sober light
- Losing access to a creative part of him when he stopped drinking
- How his work with his analyst replaced the alcohol in his life
- The importance of community
- What the term “father hunger” means
- His unique relationship with his analyst
- How he learned to redeem his father
- The important themes he covers in his latest novels
- Doing the hard work in the second half of life
- The respect he has developed for the craft of novel writing
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