Rick Moody Quotes

• It is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.

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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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• I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

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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 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 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.

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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 suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

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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’m trying to make sure that there’s comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

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• I love comic books and always did as a kid.

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• I turned forty, and I’m finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.

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• Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

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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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• 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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• My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.

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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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• Maybe when I’m sixty-five I’ll talk about my literary life.

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Rick Moody (30)

Birth:	18th October, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Composer, Novelist, Writer

About

Rick Moody is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel The Ice Storm, a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into a feature film of the same title.

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