Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore
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.
enjoyed spending time wrote
The reason I wrote 'You Suck' was that I so enjoyed spending time with Tommy and Jody.
time-travel knows
It's like time travel only, you know, slower...
boarding educated era learned music opposed shipped time took tribal white
The Sousa era was also the same time as the boarding-school era when the Oneidas were shipped off (to be educated in white ways, as opposed to the tribal ways). They learned the Sousa music and took it back with them when they were done with boarding school.
added bell dislike hemingway imitate level mainly moved ruined stylistic time tried whom writers
I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so many young writers of my generation who tried to imitate him. I think, for his time, he moved fiction to a different level stylistically, or at least added to the dialogue, but in our time, he's annoying.
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.
came charlie chinatown francisco mission parts san scenes spent time tried walk wrote
I came back to San Francisco and spent more time in the neighborhoods like Chinatown and the Mission that I hadn't been in much before. I tried to get a feel for all parts of the city, so when I wrote the book, the neighborhoods would be like characters. There are scenes where all Charlie does is walk through neighborhoods, and it's like an Impressionist painting.
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?
books funny
The reason I'm writing funny books is that I wish there were more.
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.
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.