Rick Moody

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.

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.

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.

What genre it falls under is only of interest later.

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

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

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.

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

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

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.