From Dickens’s cockneys to Salinger’s phonies, from Kerouac’s beatniks to Cheech and Chong’s freaks, and on to hip hop’s homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves. Christopher Moore Read Quote
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. Christopher Moore Read Quote
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. Christopher Moore Read Quote
As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that’s what Kurt Vonnegut was to me. Christopher Moore Read Quote
For me, ‘Lamb’ started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in ‘Coyote Blue’ and ‘Island of the Sequined Love Nun,’ but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship. Christopher Moore Read Quote
I just finished a novel called ‘Exult,’ by Joe Quirk, last night. It’s about hang gliding. I liked his first book, too, ‘The Ultimate Rush.’ I now know that I never, ever, ever want to go hang gliding, so that’s good. Christopher Moore Read Quote
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. Christopher Moore Read Quote
The fact that ‘A Dirty Job’ has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it’s about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels – but I have no problem with that. I’d call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that. Christopher Moore Read Quote
San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It’s a great setting for a horror story. Christopher Moore Read Quote
One thing that’s really delightful is my books tend to attract people who are funny, so I get the benefit of people writing me with things that crack me up. Christopher Moore Read Quote