Quotes by Matthew Quick

About Matthew Quick:

Matthew Quick is an American writer of young-adult fiction. His debut novel, The Silver Linings Playbook, was adapted as a movie of the same name starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, with Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, and Chris Tucker.
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Remember – it's a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end.

Matthew Quick

it’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end

Matthew Quick

Silence has always been my default mode—my best defense against the rest of the world.

Matthew Quick

I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.

Matthew Quick

Someday an opportunity will come. Think about Harry Potter. His life is terrible, but then a letter arrives, he gets on a train, and everything is different for him afterward. Better. Magical." "That's just a story." "So are we- we're stories too.

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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 professi...

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You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

Matthew Quick

I believe in happy endings, and i feel this movie has advanced long enough.

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Look, sometimes it’s OK with girls like this, they wanna have fun, and sometimes it’s not because they've got a broken wing and they’re hurt and they’re an easy target. In this case, this particular case, I think that wing is being fixed, my ...

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Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.

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Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that shit.

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Pat, it's not sexual – it's modern dance.

Matthew Quick

Of course I began to see Nikki, which was strange because I was staring into Danny's eyes, and Danny is a six-foot-three black man who looks nothing like my ex-wife.

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He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses, the needs, the desperation, everything that makes her different from Ronnie and Veronica, who have each other and their daughte...

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Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

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You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life

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Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you.

Matthew Quick

I still believe you fell into my life for a reason.

Matthew Quick

... Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with ... Mr. G might not seem evil, but I fear him more than any other human being.

Matthew Quick

I've seen the way you've been looking at me. Don't bullshit me, Pat. I live in the addition around back, which is completely separate from the house, so there's no chance of my parents walking in on us. I hate the fact that you wore a football jersey...

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Author Bio

  • NameMatthew Quick
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornOctober 23, 1973
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter