Rick Moody

Literature precedes genre.

I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.

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.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.