Author: Rick Moody

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- Rick Moody

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

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

- Rick Moody

I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.

I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.

- Rick Moody

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.

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

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

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

- Rick Moody

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

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

- Rick Moody

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