Rick Moody Quotes

"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."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Now, World, Writer)

"Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Writing)

"When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Control, Example, Hell, Prose)

"What genre it falls under is only of interest later."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Interest)

"This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Money, Success, Job, Talk)

"The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Personality, Prose, Trying)

"The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Balance, Content)

"The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Life)

"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."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Funny, Books, Emotions, Want, Writer)

"Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Work)

"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
(Related: Family, Memories, Reading)

"My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Contention, Style)

"I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Time)

"Literature precedes genre."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Literature)

"I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Awards, Books, Reading)

"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
(Related: Literary, Now, Paris, Party, Universe)

"Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Literary)

"I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Opportunity)

"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."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Work, Boston, EnglFact, Now, Right, Trying)

"Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Life, Literary, Talk)

"I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way."
- Rick Moody

"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."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Family, Artist, Contempt, Man)

"I love comic books and always did as a kid."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Love, Books)

"I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Faith, Order, Treasure)

"I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Comedy, Sadness, Trying)

"I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth."
- Rick Moody
(Related: People, Trying)

"Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Life, Facts, Fiction)

"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."
- Rick Moody
(Related: People, Memory, Wrong)

"I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Character)