The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures. – Rick Moody
I’m trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth. – Rick Moody
This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about – one is my job and the success that I’ve had in it, and the other is money. – Rick Moody
I judged about a zillion awards this year so I’ve been reading a lot of books that just came out. – Rick Moody
It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I’d have the details all wrong or I couldn’t remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be. – 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 I want to have the whole range of human emotions. – Rick Moody
I’m trying to make sure that there’s comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable. – Rick Moody
I didn’t know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I’d never killed a character before. – 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 moving out into the world more. – Rick Moody
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality. – Rick Moody
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That’s material that I really like. – Rick Moody
All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt – you know, I’m an artist, man, I don’t do that family stuff – has begun to seem really important. – Rick Moody
But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now. – Rick Moody
When prose gets too stylized and out of control – and Stein is sometimes a good example – when you don’t know what the hell is going on, then it’s kind of boring. – Rick Moody
I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way. – Rick Moody
