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.

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.