Author: Rick Moody

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Rick Moody

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.

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.

- 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

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

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