If you are a lover of the carefully crafted sentence, if more isn't enough ... the worst writer of his generation.
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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
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.
Rick Moody
I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before.
Rick Moody
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.
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
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Queen Victoria
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
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