Rick Moody Quotes

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

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.

The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among white men in middle age. Higher than among any other demographic, etc. Mostly death by drugs, alcohol, or suicide. Many of them rural. My feeling is that it's many people who haven't been able to get back into the work force. Reg Morse is an example of the problem.

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 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.

There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.