Zitat des Tages von Rick Moody:
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.
I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.
Literature precedes genre.
Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.
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.
I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.
I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.
I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.
The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.
But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.
I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.
Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.
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.
I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.
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.
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.
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.
Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.
The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.
I love comic books and always did as a kid.
