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Quotes By author - Starting with R - Rick Moody
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There are 47 quotes for the author Rick Moody
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Pierre Menard tries to learn thirteenth century Italian and immerse himself in the sociology of that time in the hope that he'll spontaneously produce Don Quixote.
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My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.
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Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.
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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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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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What ends up happening is that the book becomes the compromise between intention and the pragmatics of who and where you are.
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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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My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.
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I know there will be a trickle-down effect with that, and in the paperback life of the book no one's going to expect it to be a memoir in the conventional sense.
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But Ginsberg and Burroughs both made a decision to make personality essential to their production later, with grim results.
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