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Rick Moody Quotes


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.

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

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.

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

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

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

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.

What genre it falls under is only of interest later.

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.

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