Rick Moody Quotes

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• 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 I…
• I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
• There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.
• God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know?
• I love comic books and always did as a kid.
• I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.
• I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.
• I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.
• The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
• I turned forty, and Im finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.
• There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue.
• I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult book, and then…
• It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into…
• 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…
• I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.
• My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.
• I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.
• I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes…
• The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.
• Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

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