My grandfather was a newspa... by Rick Moody, an American Novelist

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“My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.”

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Name: Rick Moody

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Oct 18, 1961

Profession: Novelist

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My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.

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Literature precedes genre.

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So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

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The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

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