American - Novelist | October 18, 1961 -
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
Rick Moody
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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.
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So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.
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I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.
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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.
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My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.
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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.
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The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.
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It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.
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I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.
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I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.
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I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
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