116 Quotes by Rick Moody

We ran hard and had a few injuries. We just didn't have anything go well this week.

My letters to Pat are apologies. I was the oldest. I should have been there for him.

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

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.

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

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.

What happened was that after I wrote The Ice Storm I had a period where I was blocked for a little bit, before I wrote Purple America.

What genre it falls under is only of interest later.

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.