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 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 think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about. — 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 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 am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it.… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder… — 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
Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more… — 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
When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know… — 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
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 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 Image
The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way. — 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
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 Image
