Rick Moody Quotes
35 Rick Moody quotes:
"writing about the classics is a really important exercise, because you really need to dig deep to do it"
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"I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity."
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"All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important."
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"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."
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"Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem."
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"I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century."
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"I can tell you all about the psychiatric hospital, but talking about the making of The Ice Storm movie... it makes me really uncomfortable."
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"I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way."
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"I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out."
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"I love comic books and always did as a kid."
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"I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do."
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"I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order."
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"I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid."
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"I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable."
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"I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth."
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"I'm trying to stay close to language first and foremost and make sure that the paragraphs sing, that it sounds like music to me."
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"Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that."
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"It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be."
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"It's 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."
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"Literature precedes genre."
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