Rick Moody

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order. ↗

— Rick Moody

#faith #highest #highest order #i #order

I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid. ↗

— Rick Moody

#forty #get #get married #going #i

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable. ↗

— Rick Moody

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I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth. ↗

— Rick Moody

#dead #dead people #forth #having #i

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. ↗

— Rick Moody

#bondage #facts #fiction #impotence #life

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

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Literature precedes genre. ↗

— Rick Moody

#literature #precedes

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life. ↗

— Rick Moody

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My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style. ↗

— Rick Moody

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My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert. ↗

— Rick Moody

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