#or

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. ↗

— Rick Moody

#back #boston #century #england #fact

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way. ↗

— Rick Moody

#comes #defy #down #hard #i

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

#i #make #makes #memorable #more

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

#doing #exactly #great #happened #i

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

#am #conquered #conquering #ghetto #having

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

#earliest #earliest memories #family #grandfather #had

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures. ↗

— Rick Moody

#cultures #had #ice #life #movie

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

#control #example #gets #going #good