All Rick Moody Quotes
- 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… All
- I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order. Blasphemy
- There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes. Powerful
- God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know? Earthly
- I love comic books and always did as a kid. Book
- I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity. Always Wanted
- I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way. Break
- I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out. Awards
- The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. Composition
- I turned forty, and Im finally going to get married and maybe have a kid. Finally
- There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue. Burroughs
- 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… Believe
- 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… Conquer
- 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… Book
- I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth. Dead
- My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style. Contention
- I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable. Comedy
- 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… Absolute
- The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures. Culture
- Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. All
- Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem. Bookstore
- Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life. Five
- But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going… Drive
- The past was so past it hurt. Hurt
- 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. Arms