Rick Moody Trying Quotations

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.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

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.

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

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.