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title: "1 Dark Stuff Quotes By Rick Moody"
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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-moody/so-while-it-is-true-that-i-find-really-dark-stuff-funny-sometimes-it/)

[Rick Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-moody/)

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## More by Rick Moody

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-moody/i-believe-that-god-locates-himself-at-the-spot-where-you-recognize/)

[Rick Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-moody/)

> [The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-moody/the-ice-storm-because-of-the-movie-has-had-or-is-to-have-a-vigorous/)

[Rick Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-moody/)

> [Capitalism, in the realm of sexuality, I figure, thinks that we behave in specific ways, like a breast is always going to produce a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-moody/capitalism-in-the-realm-of-sexuality-i-figure-thinks-that-we-behave/)

[Rick Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-moody/)

> [Literature precedes genre.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-moody/literature-precedes-genre/)

[Rick Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-moody/)

> [I'm not the guy to ask about the most up to date stuff.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-moody/i-m-not-the-guy-to-ask-about-the-most-up-to-date-stuff/)

[Rick Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-moody/)

> [“Words are the oldest information storage and retrieval system ever devised. Words are probably older than the cave paintings in France, words have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-moody/words-are-the-oldest-information-storage-and-retrieval-system-ever/)

[Rick Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-moody/)

> [Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-moody/writing-the-book-was-itself-a-process-of-concealing-and-revealing/)

[Rick Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-moody/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-moody/tangled-in-one-another-s-arms-and-nine-times-out-of-ten-the-things/)

[Rick Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-moody/)

> [The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-moody/the-great-recession-is-not-imaginary-and-the-effects-loom-large-there/)

[Rick Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-moody/)

> [I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-moody/i-have-worked-really-hard-to-defy-categorization-to-break-down-a/)

[Rick Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-moody/)

> [I am excited by... the new novel by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-moody/i-am-excited-by-the-new-novel-by-samantha-hunt-she-s-a-writer-i/)

[Rick Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-moody/all-the-stuff-that-i-used-to-treat-with-contempt-you-know-i-m-an/)

[Rick Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-moody/)

> [Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-moody/updike-worked-this-way-and-i-just-kinda-borrowed-it-from-him-so-the/)

[Rick Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-moody/)

> [ “\[I\]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-moody/i-t-is-things-that-make-us-happy-when-conversation-begins-to-reveal/)

[Rick Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-moody/when-prose-gets-too-stylized-and-out-of-control-and-stein-is/)

[Rick Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-moody/)

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