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I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it...

#Rick Moody

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it...

When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a...

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When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a...

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

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Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an...

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All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an...

But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important...

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But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important...

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

#Rick Moody

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the...

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I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the...

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England...

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I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England...

I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a...

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I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a...

The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.

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The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose,...

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The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose,...

This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about...

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This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about...

What genre it falls under is only of interest later.

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What genre it falls under is only of interest later.

Literature precedes genre.

#Rick Moody

Literature precedes genre.

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

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

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

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

My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC,...

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My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC,...

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I...

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Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I...