I’ve made a dog’s breakfast of English history, geography, ‘King Lear,’ and the English language in general. – Christopher Moore
For me, ‘Lamb’ started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in ‘Coyote Blue’ and ‘Island of the Sequined Love Nun,’ but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship. – Christopher Moore
When I teach seminars, I tell people, ‘Your stuff has to look like something that’s out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.’ – Christopher Moore
When you go on book tour, you’re always talking about yourself and your book from the time you get up in the morning until you go out at night. You, you. You get really sick of yourself. – Christopher Moore
You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you’re dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it’s a little more ambitious. – Christopher Moore
The reason I wrote ‘You Suck’ was that I so enjoyed spending time with Tommy and Jody. – Christopher Moore
The fact that ‘A Dirty Job’ has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it’s about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels – but I have no problem with that. I’d call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that. – Christopher Moore
I’m not nearly as outrageously brave as many of my rascals that I write. But I think the rascal spirit must reside in me somewhere. – Christopher Moore
One thing that’s really delightful is my books tend to attract people who are funny, so I get the benefit of people writing me with things that crack me up. – Christopher Moore
I was baptized Methodist, but I was mainly raised First Church of NFL, which is to say that my family, especially my father, was much more concerned with watching football on Sundays than attending services. – Christopher Moore
Like most people, I woke up one day to find that everyone I knew was taking antidepressants, and since I wasn’t, I figured that I must be the cause of their depression. – Christopher Moore
As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don’t want reviews from them, simply because I don’t need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something. – Christopher Moore
I really don’t think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I’m good at. – Christopher Moore
I love British cursing – the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it. – Christopher Moore
I think beta males on an evolutionary basis are much more successful than the alpha males are. You don’t hear much about us, but there’s a lot more of us out there. – Christopher Moore
You can’t teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page. – Christopher Moore
When I was writing ‘You Suck,’ in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book’s narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from what I read on Goth blog sites. – Christopher Moore
From Dickens’s cockneys to Salinger’s phonies, from Kerouac’s beatniks to Cheech and Chong’s freaks, and on to hip hop’s homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves. – Christopher Moore
When you’re telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it’s like an impressionistic painting – you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece. – Christopher Moore
I have that special sort of novelist body of knowledge which is extraordinarily wide and very, very shallow. So I can usually answer the questions on ‘Jeopardy,’ but never the bonus question. – Christopher Moore
I just finished a novel called ‘Exult,’ by Joe Quirk, last night. It’s about hang gliding. I liked his first book, too, ‘The Ultimate Rush.’ I now know that I never, ever, ever want to go hang gliding, so that’s good. – Christopher Moore
I can’t write a book like ‘Lamb’ or ‘Fool’ every year. It just takes too much research and craft. – Christopher Moore
San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It’s a great setting for a horror story. – Christopher Moore
I don’t read reviews if I know in advance they’re negative, because I can’t have my confidence undermined when I’m writing. – Christopher Moore
