Rick Moody

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

#going #i #important #incessant #irrelevant

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem. ↗

— Rick Moody

#genre #literary #problem

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity. ↗

— Rick Moody

#details #finally #gave #i #i always

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. ↗

— Rick Moody

#back #boston #century #england #fact

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. ↗

— Rick Moody

#because #before #big #big deal #character

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way. ↗

— Rick Moody

#comes #defy #down #hard #i

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

— Rick Moody

#awards #been #books #came #i

I love comic books and always did as a kid. ↗

— Rick Moody

#books #comic #comic books #did #i

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

— Rick Moody

#list #made #me #stuff #time

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

#begun #contempt #family #i #important