Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore
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.
pieces kind life-is
Life is messy. Would that every puzzle piece fell into place, every word was kind, every accident happy, but such is not the case. Life is messy
irritation life-is
Life is an irritation.
loneliness broken life-is
Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk
life children imagination-creativity
Children see magic because they look for it.
art christ dealing life themes vampire vehicle
You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious.
alone career early gets goes life pick projects realize room spend time unless
As an author, you spend a lot of time by yourself in a room making clicky noises. It gets pretty insulated. You realize pretty early on in your career that even if this goes well, you could spend all your life in a room alone. Unless you pick projects that are going to get you out doing things, you're not going to actually live your life.
mean immortal stills
Do we still have to floss?" Tommy asked. "I mean, what's the point of being immortal if we have to floss?
morning sick talking time until
When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you get up in the morning until you go out at night. You, you. You get really sick of yourself.
books funny
The reason I'm writing funny books is that I wish there were more.
enjoyed spending time wrote
The reason I wrote 'You Suck' was that I so enjoyed spending time with Tommy and Jody.
fans great humor senses
My fans have great senses of humor and eat too much chocolate.
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.