Rick Moody American Novelist Quotations

The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

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.

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

What happened was that after I wrote The Ice Storm I had a period where I was blocked for a little bit, before I wrote Purple America.

What genre it falls under is only of interest later.

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.

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.

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