From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

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• Christopher Moore:

  When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an

• Christopher Moore:

  You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes

• Christopher Moore:

  I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.

• Christopher Moore:

  I have that special sort of novelist body of knowledge which is extraordinarily wide and very, very

• Christopher Moore:

  I'm not nearly as outrageously brave as many of my rascals that I write. But I think the rascal spi

• Christopher Moore:

  I think beta males on an evolutionary basis are much more successful than the alpha males are. You

• Christopher Moore:

  I was baptized Methodist, but I was mainly raised First Church of NFL, which is to say that my fami

• Christopher Moore:

  I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Mat

• Christopher Moore:

  As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.

• Christopher Moore:

  You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic,