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Rick Moody quotes

American Novelist October 18, 1961

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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. Rick Moody
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? Rick Moody
Rick Moody quote: "I love comic books and always did as a kid."
I love comic books and always did as a kid. Rick Moody
Rick Moody quote: "The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a..."
The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures. Rick Moody
Rick Moody quote: "Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts..."
Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. Rick Moody
Rick Moody quote: "Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life."
Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life. 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
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
Rick Moody quote: "[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to..."
[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute. Rick Moody
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. Rick Moody
Rick Moody quote: "I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as..."
I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable. 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
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
it was as if the entire day, the entire vacation even, were leading up to a single moment. he felt certain then that stan lee was in some direct communication with the universe - in a way, say, that the watcher, the most mysterious marvel character, was content like some gnostic entity merely to know of machinations of creation - and that through lee's spiritually advanced vision, paul's own destiny was entrapped in the monthly serializations of these kitschy superheroes. he seemed both... 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

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