Rick Moody

Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that…

— Rick Moody

I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.

— Rick Moody

I turned forty, and Im finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.

— Rick Moody

My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are…

— Rick Moody

If I'm going to feel estranged and alienated and away from home I don't want anyone interrupting it to debate which berries…

— Rick Moody

I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.

— Rick Moody

“Fucking family. Feeble and forlorn and floundering and foolish and frustrating and functional and sad, sad. Fucking family. Fiend or foe.”

— Rick Moody

But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my…

— Rick Moody

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

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books…

— Rick Moody

What genre it falls under is only of interest later.

— Rick Moody

This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the…

— Rick Moody

I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to…

— Rick Moody

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

I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder…

— Rick Moody

I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first…

— Rick Moody

“it was as if the entire day, the entire vacation even, were leading up to a single moment. he felt certain then…

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“What kind of woman was she? What kind of woman was it who called to me from that calamity on the Seventh…

— Rick Moody

I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.

— Rick Moody

I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who…

— Rick Moody

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.

— Rick Moody

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to…

— Rick Moody

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

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I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult…

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I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

— Rick Moody