Moody Writing Quotes

#1. The idea to make hotel reviews the form of the novel came first.So I just started writing hotel reviews and tried to come up with a consistent voice.

Rick Moody

#2. Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

Aldous Huxley

#3. The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. I am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read it as I would any other book, I might think I could write a book like that.

Dwight L. Moody

#5. I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more at peace as a human being. That doesn't mean, unfortunately, that the literary product is any good.

Rick Moody

#6. Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.

Rick Moody

#7. When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

Leonard Cohen

#8. We'd had our differences over the years, as all brothers do, but brothers also have a way of sticking together when the chips are down.

Stephen King

#9. While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married, I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other ... There are always plenty of surprises- and lots of give and take-once you're married.

Muriel Fox

#10. Language spread its warm, absurd rays over all my adolescent thoughts, and I felt the way we all long to feel: moody, lonely, lovesick and explosive with the prospects of tomorrow.

Spencer Gordon

#11. But the law's dream - anyone's dream - would be to turn the clock back and stop the bad thing from happening in the first place.

Ward Farnsworth

#12. In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use up all the material each time, and I need to rest.

Rick Moody

#13. When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have become a moody English screen actor.

Alan Moore

#14. Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.

Gary Numan

#15. I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.

Rick Moody

#16. This was like the Rubik's Cube of life.
One big glob of scattered, multicolored possibilities she had to sort out and line up in the appropriate manner by twisting endless scenario after scenario in her head.
And it sucked.
Big, fat wankers.

Dakota Cassidy

#17. Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

George Arthur Buttrick

#18. Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.

Dwight L. Moody

#19. Having a school really is the fulfillment of a longtime dream of mine.

Richard Rohr

#20. Darkness crept through. Shadows pried at doors, teased dull edges of recollections that never quite took hold. Memories that would have shriveled under the blinding sun of daylight. And reason.

Edward Fahey

#21. Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

Rick Moody

#22. That mysterious play which extends from love of a body to a love of an entire person has seemed to me noble enough to consecrate to it one part of my life.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#23. The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen

#24. I can't teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.

Hank Moody

#25. Women have their own braveries, their own mighty courageousness that is of woman, and not to be compared with the courage shown by man.

Richard Llewellyn