“I am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it. So those of you thinking you might need your demons in order to be creative: I beg to differ.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsMightOrderCreativeCuriousDemonFewerBe Creative Author:Rick Moody
“I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more at peace as a human being. That doesn't mean, unfortunately, that the literary product is any good.” ThinkingFeelsWritingHumansMeanHuman BeingsWrittenProductsFeel Better Author:Rick Moody
“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.” ThinkingFeelsSometimesCharacterPurposeFallComplexesDebateCracksSympatheticComplex CharactersUnsympathetic Author:Rick Moody
“I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.” ThinkingShouldFirstsPersonsComplexesTrustedShallowPredictableFirst PersonNarrators Author:Rick Moody
“I always feel I have made unfilmable books. I even felt that way about a book of mine that was later made into a movie. But my wife, who has made two films, thinks this one would make a very original film. I'm all for original films.” ThinkingWayFeelsMadeTwoBookFilmFeltWifeMinesOriginalsMy Wife Author:Rick Moody
“I think people on antidepressants often lose sexual feelings. I don't mean that I think sex is only about sadness; it is obviously about joy and vitality and birth as well.” PeopleThinkingMeanFeelingsJoySadnessBirth Author:Rick Moody
“Capitalism, in the realm of sexuality, I figure, thinks that we behave in specific ways, like a breast is always going to produce a hard-on for some product, whereas the truth is that sexuality is always a continuum, which can be characterized by reversals.” ThinkingTruth IsCapitalismSexualityBehave Author:Rick Moody
“Tangled in one another's arms and nine times out of ten the things you think about a person make it impossible to touch them.” ThinkingPersonsImpossibleArmsTenNineTangled Author:Rick Moody
“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.” ThinkingLiterature Author:Rick Moody
