I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I am excited by... the new novel by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I published a bunch of my older books in e-book format with Open Road, which is great and has tons of hard… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I always feel I have made unfilmable books. I even felt that way about a book of mine that was later made… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility…And the paradox of it all has been that whenever… — Rick Moody Copy Share
The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures. — Rick Moody Copy Share
Capitalism, in the realm of sexuality, I figure, thinks that we behave in specific ways, like a breast is always going to produce a… — Rick Moody Copy Share
“Words are the oldest information storage and retrieval system ever devised. Words are probably older than the cave paintings in France, words have been… — Rick Moody Copy Share
Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them. — Rick Moody Copy Share
The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among… — Rick Moody Copy Share
I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way. — Rick Moody Copy Share
I am excited by... the new novel by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot. — Rick Moody Copy Share
All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff -… — Rick Moody Copy Share
Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment. — Rick Moody Copy Share
“[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.” — Rick Moody Copy Share
When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the… — Rick Moody Copy Share
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