Top 30 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.

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.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.