"The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs……" — Rick Moody
"The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality."
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41 Quotes by Rick Moody
Rick Moody has 41 quotes on this site.
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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…
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I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
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There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.
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God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know?
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I love comic books and always did as a kid.
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I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.
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I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.
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I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.
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I turned forty, and Im finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.
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There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial…
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I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about…
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It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer…
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More Composition Quotes
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one of 417 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
— Joseph Addison
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
— Annie Besant
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult…
— Nick Clegg
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When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together.…
— Tadao Ando
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To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.
— Christopher Tunnard
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When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition,…
— Joseph Addison
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In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of…
— Julia Cameron
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He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to…
— Maurice Ravel
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As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to…
— Isaac Newton
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If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars,…
— Guglielmo Marconi
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