I am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it. So those of you thinking you might need your demons in order to be creative: I beg to differ.
I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books. - 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 my death without having to give up on books.
- Rick Moody
Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment. - Rick Moody
Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.
Capitalism, in the realm of sexuality, I figure, thinks that we behave in specific ways, like a breast is always going to produce a hard-on for some … - Rick Moody
Capitalism, in the realm of sexuality, I figure, thinks that we behave in specific ways, like a breast is always going to produce a hard-on for some …
I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-o… - Rick Moody
I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-o…
Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem. - Rick Moody
Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.
I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out. - Rick Moody
I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.
I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about. - Rick Moody
I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. - Rick Moody
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
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 it. To move on. I w… - Rick Moody
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 it. To move on. I w…
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