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

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

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

- 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…

- 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 …

- Rick Moody

I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.

- Rick Moody

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

- Rick Moody

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

- 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…

- Rick Moody