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Rick Moody
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 18
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
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Hiram Frederick III Moody
Hiram Frederick Moody III
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I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more at peace as a human being. That doesn't mean, unfortunately, that the literary product is any good.
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I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.
Rick Moody
The idea to make hotel reviews the form of the novel came first. So I just started writing hotel reviews and tried to come up with a consistent voice.
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I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.
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Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.
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In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use up all the material each time, and I need to rest.
Rick Moody
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.
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Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.
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I turned forty, and Im finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.
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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.
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I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.
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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.
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I think people on antidepressants often lose sexual feelings. I don't mean that I think sex is only about sadness it is obviously about joy and vitality and birth as well.
Rick Moody
I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.
Rick Moody
I'm not the guy to ask about the most up to date stuff.
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I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.
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My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.
Rick Moody
I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.
Rick Moody
It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.
Rick Moody
I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.
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