#out

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

#going #i #important #incessant #irrelevant

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

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

— Rick Moody

#i #life #literary #maybe #sixty-five

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

#certain #certain things #embarrassing #had #i

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

Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level. ↗

— Robert Moog

#basic #consciousness #energy #everything #into

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics. ↗

— Robert Moog

#beat #built #each #electronics #i

The mini-Moog was conceived originally as a session musician's axe, something a guy could carry to the studio, do a gig and walk out. ↗

— Robert Moog

#carry #conceived #could #gig #guy

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#brain #come #different #different kinds #different parts