All Rick Moody Quotes
- 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
- Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from… Advertisers
- Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs… Age
- I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about. Best
- Literature precedes genre. Genre
- What genre it falls under is only of interest later. Falls
- Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing. Book
- The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content. Balance
- My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the… All
- All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has… All
- I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing… Boston
- I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big… Able
- I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do. List
- It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all… All
- Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like. Devices
- This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've… Certain