Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore
somebody soon sort
I've sort of made a reputation by high-stepping my way out of genre. As soon as somebody says, 'He does this,' I'm not standing there anymore.
horror ray
I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Bram Stoker.
advance reviews
I don't read reviews if I know in advance they're negative, because I can't have my confidence undermined when I'm writing.
death
I don't give a toss about being remembered after my death.
takes
I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.
pryor richard
As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.
characters life obnoxious
All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you can't be that obnoxious and get away with it.
answer bonus knowledge novelist sort special wide
I have that special sort of novelist body of knowledge which is extraordinarily wide and very, very shallow. So I can usually answer the questions on 'Jeopardy,' but never the bonus question.
blog diction goth perky
When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from what I read on Goth blog sites.
comic funny good listen teach
You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.
chance nobody otherwise stuff teach
When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'
brave nearly rascals reside spirit
I'm not nearly as outrageously brave as many of my rascals that I write. But I think the rascal spirit must reside in me somewhere.
I'm not afraid of getting into a subject I don't know much about.
cool good terms work
I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.