Quotes by Rick Moody

About Rick Moody:

Hiram Frederick "Rick" Moody III 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. Many of his works have been praised by fellow writers and critics alike, and in 1999 The New Yorker chose him as one of America's most talented young writers, listing him on their "20 Writers for the 21st Century" list.
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[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.

Rick Moody

What kind of woman was she? What kind of woman was it who called to me from that calamity on the Seventh Avenue line? What kind of woman do I love now, with a fealty that will not cease, not till my occluded arteries send their clots up to the spongy...

Rick Moody

All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.

Rick Moody

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

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

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

Rick Moody

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

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

Rick Moody

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

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

Rick Moody

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

Rick Moody

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

Rick Moody

I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.

Rick Moody

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

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

Rick Moody

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

Rick Moody

What genre it falls under is only of interest later.

Rick Moody

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

Rick Moody

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

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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.

Rick Moody

Author Bio

  • NameRick Moody
  • DescriptionFiction writer
  • BornOctober 18, 1961
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship