Rick Moody Quotes
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I am excited by... the new novel by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot.
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I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.
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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.
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I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.
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Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from it. To move on. I want to suggest, therefore, that we begin to avoid cool now. Cool is a trick to get you to buy garments made by sweatshop laborers in Third World countries. Cool is the Triumph of the Will. Cool enables you to step over bodies. Cool enables you to look the other way. Cool makes you functional, eager for routine distraction, passive, doped, stupid.
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People tend to be scared of what they can't see.
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The past was so past it hurt.
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I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.
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The idea to make hotel reviews the form of the novel came first. So I just started writing hotel reviews and tried to come up with a consistent voice.
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I always feel I have made unfilmable books. I even felt that way about a book of mine that was later made into a movie. But my wife, who has made two films, thinks this one would make a very original film. I'm all for original films.
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The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
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I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.
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I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me. I believe in choosing books based on the dust jacket.
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I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.
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Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.
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In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use up all the material each time, and I need to rest.
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I love comic books and always did as a kid.
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Sadness is simply something to be treated with antidepressant meds and otherwise need not be spoken of.
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I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more at peace as a human being. That doesn't mean, unfortunately, that the literary product is any good.
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There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue.
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I turned forty, and Im finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.
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I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.
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I published a bunch of my older books in e-book format with Open Road, which is great and has tons of hard to find older books available there.
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I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.
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Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love?
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I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training!
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God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know?
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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.
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I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.
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I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder if the potential advantages are really going to happen as quickly as they ought.
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