Rick Moody Book Quotations

I always feel I have made unfilmable books. I even felt that way about a book of mine that was later made into a movie. But my wife, who has made two films, thinks this one would make a very original film. I'm all for original films.

I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder if the potential advantages are really going to happen as quickly as they ought.

I published a bunch of my older books in e-book format with Open Road, which is great and has tons of hard to find older books available there.

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.

I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult book, and then making up my own mind.

I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me. I believe in choosing books based on the dust jacket.

Major theme of the book [ Hotels of North America], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.

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

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

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