I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
From Rick Moody
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
Literature precedes genre.
Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.
What genre it falls under is only of interest later.
Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.
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.
Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.
I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.
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.
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