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Matthew Krause

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With "Matthew" being one of the top five baby names for over 20 years and "Krause" being the German equivalent of Smith or Jones, it's hard to tell one Matthew Krause from the other on Facebook. This Matthew Krause is an award-winning screenwriter, independent filmmaker, teacher, and mentor. Although he writes in multiple genres, the common theme in all of his work is man's eternal struggle to find those pockets of nobility in a sea of human frailty.

Matthew was raised in the heartland of Kansas, earning his Bachelor’s degree from Emporia State University and a Master’s degree from Kansas State University. He has authored several screenplays, including Radical Evil, which placed in the quarterfinals of the Nicholl Fellowship, Play Action, w
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Matthew Krause As I stated in the answer to another question, I sit before the blank screen and push words around on paper until they fit.
Matthew Krause There is no best thing about being a writer. That is like asking someone what is the best thing about being able to see or hear. If you have never exp…moreThere is no best thing about being a writer. That is like asking someone what is the best thing about being able to see or hear. If you have never experienced blindness or deafness as a comparison, how can you know what is the best thing about seeing and hearing? Or, as a great Eastern sage once said, how do you describe a peach to someone who has never taken a bite of one?

I write because I have to, pure and simple. After wading through the hoards of well-intentioned friends and family telling me how and what to write, I have reached an age of Roger Murtaugh, where I am "too old for this shit," and the words are simply there. There is nothing good or bad, best or worst, about this process. It simply is.(less)
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"Keep On Movin'" - An Annotated Look at My Final YouTube Video as the Ubiquitous "Catmatt"

From 1998 to late 2012, I had an online presence on the Kansas State football message boards as a character named Catmatt. Catmatt was angry and opinionated, and he made a series of ridiculous videos on YouTube. Catmatt was loved and hated in equal measure, especially by me, and by 2010 I had fallen into a stupid online feud with a Kansas State fan board called goemaw.com. The feud lasted from 201 Read more of this blog post »
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“Inspiration is already here, waiting for you to turn around and look at it.”
Matthew Krause

“One wishes for enough assurance to be able to say, "Yes, it will happen today!" But what is it, and do I really want it to happen?”
Matthew Krause

“I seem to recall a story of how when Michael J. Fox visited Tibet that he suffered no symptoms of his Parkinson's, so great was the spiritual energy that surrounded him. If this is true, I wish I could be a human Tibet.”
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“Don't play what's there, play what's not there.”
Miles Davis, Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

“Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.”
Pier Paolo Pasolini

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
Ernest Hemingway

“You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven. ”
Jimi Hendrix

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
Charles Bukowski

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