116 Quotes by Rick Moody

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn’t push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.

He seemed as though he were habitually preparing himself for something awful, and this was justified because many awful things had happened to him.

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.

I have admired Melissa Pritchard’s writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.

Deviants and losers and mutants and the loveless... were the proper readers of Marvel comics.

You could pay Arthur Janov to teach you to scream about history, or you could learn prayer or a mantra, or you could write your life down and hope to make peace with it, write it down, or paint it, or turn it into improvisational theater, but that was the best you could probably do. You were stuck.

Literature precedes genre.

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