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" 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. "
Rick Moody
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" The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content. "
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" Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing. "
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" 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. "
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" My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style. "
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" What genre it falls under is only of interest later. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I love comic books and always did as a kid. "
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" I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order. "
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Order
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" Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like. "
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" 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. "
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I Am
" I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do. "
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Time
" Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. "
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Our
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" I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable. "
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" I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity. "
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" I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid. "
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