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Rick Moody

Born: January 01, 1970

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.

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.”

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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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“The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.”

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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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