Quotes by Rick Moody

Rick Moody

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

Awards

Book

Reading

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

Book

Children

Kids

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

Lists

Stuff

Trying

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.

Book

Bunch

Format

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.

Cycling

Night

Reading

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn’t push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.

Hate

Novel

Tradition

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

Order

Should

Treasure

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate.

Character

Fall

Thinking

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.

Firsts

Narrators

Thinking

I think literature is best when it’s voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

Literature

Thinking

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Berries

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Bookstores

Boston

Breaking Down

Bunch

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Children

Contention

Country

Cycling

Dark

Details

Excited

Facts

Fall

Feel Better

Fiction

Firsts

Five

Format

Genre Is

Ghetto

Giving Up

Guy

Hate

Historical

Hockey

Home

Howl

Humble

Hurt

Ice

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Important

Issues

It Hurts

Kids

Laughter

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Quotes by Rick Moody

Rick Moody

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

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

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

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.

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.

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn’t push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.

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

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate.

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.

I think literature is best when it’s voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

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