Rick Moody Quotes

• 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.

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  Topics in Family

  Tags in Reading, Memories

• Literature precedes genre.

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  Tags in Literature

• Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That’s material that I really like.

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  Tags in Material, Strategy, Device

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in True, Human, Find

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Storm, Movie, Ice

• The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.

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  Tags in Balance, Point

• The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

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  Tags in Process, Composition

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Certain, Embarrassing

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stylish, Control

• Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

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  Tags in Book, Writing

Rick Moody (30)

Birth:	18th October, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Composer, Novelist, Writer

About

Rick Moody is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel The Ice Storm, a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into a feature film of the same title.

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