American - Novelist | October 18, 1961 -
I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.
Rick Moody
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Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.
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I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.
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Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
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Literature precedes genre.
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Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.
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What genre it falls under is only of interest later.
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Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.
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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.
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Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.
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I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.
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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.
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