116 Quotes by Rick Moody

They tell them to just keep walking north and don't look back. We've tried to apprehend some of these bandits.

It made it more personal and easier to talk.

I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.

I'm trying to stay close to language first and foremost and make sure that the paragraphs sing, that it sounds like music to me.

But I think resolution is cheap and for lazy readers. Real life doesn't have that resolution. It's probably never going to be in my nature to deliver a proper ending.

I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before.

You don't have these perfectly transparent, simple thoughts. You have thoughts that are all cluttered up, like overused bookshelves.

The Diviners is such a big, woolly yarn, yet it's the fastest any book has come to me since The Ice Storm.

The Diviners ... an elusive, but surely huge, television saga ... that opens with Huns sweeping through Mongolia and closes with a Mormon diviner in the Las Vegas desert.