In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use up all the material each time, and I need to rest. Rick Moody More Quotes by Rick Moody More Quotes From Rick Moody Sadness is simply something to be treated with antidepressant meds and otherwise need not be spoken of. Rick Moody sadness I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy. Rick Moody humble writing years I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do. Rick Moody lists stuff trying 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. Rick Moody paris party important My suspicion is that this is an unavoidable human dilemma, that people will always want to avoid pain, to avoid those who are in pain, and so will be vulnerable to anyone or anything that seems to promise permanent avoidance. Rick Moody pain people promise People know that pain is part of our nature, that it cannot be avoided and that it should not be avoided. But capitalism in this country is focused on the idea 1) that life can and should be absolutely beautiful; 2) that beauty can be defined according to an ironclad objective standard; 3) that beauty can be held onto forever if only you do the right things perfectly enough; and 4) that it can be purchased. Rick Moody pain beautiful country Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment. Rick Moody relief writing way I always feel I have made unfilmable books. I even felt that way about a book of mine that was later made into a movie. But my wife, who has made two films, thinks this one would make a very original film. I'm all for original films. Rick Moody two book thinking I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading. Rick Moody cycling reading night I published a bunch of my older books in e-book format with Open Road, which is great and has tons of hard to find older books available there. Rick Moody format bunch book I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder if the potential advantages are really going to happen as quickly as they ought. Rick Moody president wonder book Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction. Rick Moody self views book If I'm going to feel estranged and alienated and away from home I don't want anyone interrupting it to debate which berries to have in their pancakes. Rick Moody berries want home The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among white men in middle age. Higher than among any other demographic, etc. Mostly death by drugs, alcohol, or suicide. Many of them rural. My feeling is that it's many people who haven't been able to get back into the work force. Reg Morse is an example of the problem. Rick Moody suicide white men I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted. Rick Moody narrators firsts thinking I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate. Rick Moody character fall thinking Literature precedes genre. Rick Moody precedes genre literature Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing. Rick Moody itself process writing book Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like. Rick Moody shape really like work What genre it falls under is only of interest later. Rick Moody falls only genre interest
