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" When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece. "

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" One thing that's really delightful is my books tend to attract people who are funny, so I get the benefit of people writing me with things that crack me up. "

Christopher Moore

Writing

Attract

Funny

" I have that special sort of novelist body of knowledge which is extraordinarily wide and very, very shallow. So I can usually answer the questions on 'Jeopardy,' but never the bonus question. "

" I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at. "

" Everything in Venice is just a little bit creepy, as much as it's beautiful. "

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

" I just finished a novel called 'Exult,' by Joe Quirk, last night. It's about hang gliding. I liked his first book, too, 'The Ultimate Rush.' I now know that I never, ever, ever want to go hang gliding, so that's good. "

" I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general. "

" I'm not afraid of getting into a subject I don't know much about. "

" I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Bram Stoker. "

" Like most people, I woke up one day to find that everyone I knew was taking antidepressants, and since I wasn't, I figured that I must be the cause of their depression. "

" For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship. "

" The reason I wrote 'You Suck' was that I so enjoyed spending time with Tommy and Jody. "

" When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you get up in the morning until you go out at night. You, you. You get really sick of yourself. "

" When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from what I read on Goth blog sites. "

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

Christopher Moore

Pryor

Richard Pryor

" As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something. "

" I don't read reviews if I know in advance they're negative, because I can't have my confidence undermined when I'm writing. "

" I think beta males on an evolutionary basis are much more successful than the alpha males are. You don't hear much about us, but there's a lot more of us out there. "

Christopher Moore

Alpha

You

" I was baptized Methodist, but I was mainly raised First Church of NFL, which is to say that my family, especially my father, was much more concerned with watching football on Sundays than attending services. "

" You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious. "

" I'm not nearly as outrageously brave as many of my rascals that I write. But I think the rascal spirit must reside in me somewhere. "

Christopher Moore

Think

Somewhere

" The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it's about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels - but I have no problem with that. I'd call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that. "

" San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story. "

" 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. "