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024: Matthew Quick (Silver Linings Playbook)

May 6, 2014 6 Comments

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Matthew Quick- The One You Feed

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This week on The One You Feed we have Matthew Quick.

Matthew Quick (aka Q) is the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook, which was made into an Oscar-winning film; The Good Luck of Right Now; and three young adult novels: Sorta Like a Rockstar ; BOY21; and Forgive me, Leonard Peacock  His work has been translated into 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, and selected by Nancy Pearl as one of Summer’s Best Books for NPR. Love May Fail will be published in 2015. All of his books have been optioned for film.

His books address a lot of the topics that we cover on the show all of the time. He is an engaging guest, a kind person and a great writer.

In This Interview Matthew and I Discuss…

  • The One You Feed parable.
  • The importance of the stories we tell ourselves and the stories we believe.
  • Surrounding himself with people who help feed his good wolf.
  • Growing up in a world where everyone told him he could never be a fiction writer.
  • The Good Luck of Right Now.
  • Working with the negative voices in our head.
  • Synchronicity.
  • Fiction writing as therapy.
  • The line between positive thinking and delusion.
  • Where the idea for the Silver Linings Playbook came from.
  • Believing wildly in yourself
  • The role of humor.
  • His struggles with depression and anxiety.
  • How hiding mental health conditions makes it worse.
  • Polishing the bars of our prison.

Matthew Quick Links

Matthew Quick Homepage

Matthew Quick Amazon Author Page

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  1. Mary Micolites says

    May 7, 2014 at 1:26 pm

    Great podcast. Matthew inspires me to listen to my own inner thoughts and to believe in myself.

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  2. Mark Wiltsey says

    May 8, 2014 at 11:37 am

    I love this man as a writer, person, and fellow “thinker.” He inspires so many by being honest and truthful. I consider him a fellow lighthouse keeper. Thank you for this podcast!

    Reply
  3. PJ says

    May 13, 2014 at 12:18 am

    Somehow I stumbled upon your podcast and loved it. This interview could have been with my friend Matt. Thank you for giving me insight into my friend’s mind.

    Reply
  4. Derek Olsen says

    June 24, 2014 at 5:39 am

    Man, this one was great.

    The part where Matthew talks about living in his in-laws basement and everyone thinking that he is a failure was so good.

    I just loved what he said about most artists looking like failures for a few years before success comes around. (Then of course, looking like anything but a failure.) Gotta struggle through the “failure” to get to the success.

    Then, the part about being crazy enough to choose to believe that the silver lining of the cloud was really a sign of something good coming. wow. I was blown away.

    Thanks for this podcast. It has become one of my ‘go to’ podcasts.

    -Derek

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  5. Teri says

    July 27, 2017 at 12:17 pm

    Just finished the book The Reason You’re Alive. I was so moved by this book. I am of the Vietnam era, and of the liberal mind. I actually learned something from this book. I had to question my reaction to certain folks. Thank You for that……This will be one I read and read again.!!!!

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    • Eric Zimmer says

      August 8, 2017 at 4:38 pm

      I’m glad you liked it.

      Reply

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