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Rick Moody Quotes
All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, Im an artist, man, I dont do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important. - Rick Moody Quotes
But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now. - Rick Moody Quotes
Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem. - Rick Moody Quotes
I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity. - Rick Moody Quotes
I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where Im trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. - Rick Moody Quotes
I can tell you all about the psychiatric hospital, but talking about the making of The Ice Storm movie... it makes me really uncomfortable. - Rick Moody Quotes
I didnt know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. Id never killed a character before. - Rick Moody Quotes
I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way. - Rick Moody Quotes
I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out. - Rick Moody Quotes
I love comic books and always did as a kid. - Rick Moody Quotes
I made this list of stuff that its time for me to try to do. - Rick Moody Quotes
I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order. - Rick Moody Quotes
I turned forty, and Im finally going to get married and maybe have a kid. - Rick Moody Quotes
Im trying to make sure that theres comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable. - Rick Moody Quotes
Im trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth. - Rick Moody Quotes
Im trying to stay close to language first and foremost and make sure that the paragraphs sing, that it sounds like music to me. - Rick Moody Quotes
Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. - Rick Moody Quotes
It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes Id have the details all wrong or I couldnt remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be. - Rick Moody Quotes
Its also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more. - Rick Moody Quotes
Literature precedes genre. - Rick Moody Quotes
Maybe when Im sixty-five Ill talk about my literary life. - Rick Moody Quotes
My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style. - Rick Moody Quotes
My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert. - Rick Moody Quotes
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. Thats material that I really like. - Rick Moody Quotes
So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, its also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions. - Rick Moody Quotes
The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures. - Rick Moody Quotes
The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content. - Rick Moody Quotes
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. - Rick Moody Quotes
There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue. - Rick Moody Quotes
This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that Ive had in it, and the other is money. - Rick Moody Quotes
Quotes Cloud
Artist Begun Bookstore Dont Drive Family Genre
Going Important Know Like Paris Party Problem
Really Review Seem Seems Stuff That There
Treat Twenties Universe Used Whatever When With
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