Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore
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.
artful color illuminate light painting portion seem telling truth trying
When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.
figured knew since woke
Like most people, I woke up one day to find that everyone I knew was taking antidepressants, and since I wasn't, I figured that I must be the cause of their depression.
breakfast english history
I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.
british cursing love sound vulgarity
I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it.
bit
Everything in Venice is just a little bit creepy, as much as it's beautiful.
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.
appealing elements far grasp tonal
There are some elements that are tonal and some are not. But nothing so far out you can't grasp it. It's appealing music.
believe expect lying stop word
I don't expect you to have any leniency or even believe a word I say. I have to stop lying to myself.