Matthew Quick
Matthew Quick
Matthew Quickis an American writer of adult and young-adult fiction. His debut novel, The Silver Linings Playbook, became a New York Times bestseller and was adapted as a movie of the same name starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, with Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, and Chris Tucker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 October 1973
CountryUnited States of America
cases damaged few forming neglected people quite relationships society
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.
strong average talking
Although once when we were talking after class, Herr Silverman told me that when someone rises up and holds himself to a higher standard, even when doing so benefits others, average people resent it, mostly because they're not strong enough to do the same.
life-is-like life-is series
Haven't you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies?
enemy want valuable
I can be a very valuable friend to you, but you do not want me as an enemy.
judging up-to-you judge-me
I opened up to you and you judge me
blue yellow people
Soon I am seeing the blue-and-yellow flags that line the campus streets, and it makes me feel happy and sad at the same time to be back at La Salle--almost like looking at old pictures of people who have either died or with whom you have lost contact.
love-you appreciate great-friend
Tiffany and I are great friends, and I appreciate all that she is doing for me now. But she is not you. I still love you, Nikki. And you can’t control or alter true love.
character dark thinking
So I’m thinking this is the part of my movie where things appear as if nothing is going to work out. I have to remind myself that all movie characters go through this sort of dark period before they find their happy ending.
I am so happy. I am so impossibly happy.
children teenager struggle
Instead he thinks up the worst ending imaginable: Hemingway has Catherine die from hemorrhaging after their child is stillborn. It is the most torturous ending I have ever experienced and probably will ever experience in literature, movies, or even television. I am crying so hard at the end, partly for the characters, yes, but also because Nikki actually teaches this book to children. I cannot imagine why anyone would want to expose impressionable teenagers to such a horrible ending. Why not just tell high school students that their struggle to improve themselves is all for nothing?
pounds appearance overweight
Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight...
dirty silver playbooks
There will always be a part of me that is dirty and sloppy, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself.
beautiful believe arms
I...have a woman in my arms who has suffered greatly and desperately needs to believe once again that she is beautiful.
helping abandoned needed-help
When she needed help most, she was abandoned.