Rick Moody Quotes

United States, Novelist
October 18, 1961

Hiram Frederick "Rick" Moody III is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel The Ice Storm, a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought him widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into the film The Ice Storm.

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I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

Rick Moody
- Trying
- Sadness
- Memorable
What genre it falls under is only of interest later.

Rick Moody
- Interest
- Genre

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.

Rick Moody
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.

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

Rick Moody
- Maybe
- Literary