Rick Moody quotes

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem. (Rick Moody)
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. View quote
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I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable. View quote
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I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order. View quote
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Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. View quote
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My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style. View quote
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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. View quote
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I love comic books and always did as a kid. View quote
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Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life. View quote
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The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. View quote
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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. (Rick Moody)
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. View quote
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I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth. View quote
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I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way. View quote
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I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity. View quote
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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. View quote
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I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid. View quote
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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. View quote
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I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do. View quote
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The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures. View quote
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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. (Rick Moody)
What genre it falls under is only of interest later. View quote
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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. View quote
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Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like. View quote
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Literature precedes genre. View quote
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Rick Moody

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Photo: Kudosmaker (Seamus Kearney), CC BY 3.0
Occupation: American Novelist
Born: October 18, 1961
Quotes count: 31