Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
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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.Rick Moody
Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.
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I can tell you all about the psychiatric hospital, but talking about the making of The Ice Storm movie... it makes me really uncomfortable.
Rick Moody
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.
Rick Moody
All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.
Rick Moody
Literature precedes genre.
Rick Moody
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