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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• Rick Moody:

  Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

• Rick Moody:

  I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.

• Rick Moody:

  All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that fa

• Rick Moody:

  The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is

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  But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I w

• Rick Moody:

  So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer

• Rick Moody:

  I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable

• Rick Moody:

  I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicat

• Rick Moody:

  My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.

• Rick Moody:

  When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you