Rick Moody Quotes

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

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• Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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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• The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.

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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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• 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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• Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That’s material that I really like.

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• 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.

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

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

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• Literature precedes genre.

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

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

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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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