Rick Moody Quotes
35 Rick Moody quotes:
"I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid."
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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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"Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life."
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"I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order."
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"Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like."
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"The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures."
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"The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content."
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"You don't have these perfectly transparent, simple thoughts. You have thoughts that are all cluttered up, like overused bookshelves."
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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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"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 judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out."
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"Literature precedes genre."
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"What genre it falls under is only of interest later."
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"What happened was that after I wrote The Ice Storm I had a period where I was blocked for a little bit, before I wrote Purple America."
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"I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity."
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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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"Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that."
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"So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions."
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"The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality."
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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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