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Rick Moody

Born: October 18, 1961

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist, essayist, composer

Biography: Rick Moody is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel The Ice Storm, a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into a feature film of the same title.

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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 made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.”

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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 have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.”

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“The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.”

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“It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.”

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“I love comic books and always did as a kid.”

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