BiographyType: Writer Born: January 1, 1957 Died: Christopher Moore is an American writer of absurdist fiction. He grew up in Mansfield, OH, and attended Ohio State University and Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA. Moore's novels typically involve conflicted everyman characters suddenly struggling through supernatural or extraordinary circumstances. Inheriting a humanism from his love of John Steinbeck and a sense of the absurd from Kurt Vonnegut, Moore is a best-selling author with major cult status. |
I like a girl with a substantial bottom,' said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred.
Praying is talking to God. Meditating is listening.
The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear.
Which isn’t, like, as bad as it sounds, because the general public kind of sucks ass.
Children see magic because they look for it.
Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?
Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of the Kool-Aid jingle is at once chilling and evocative. Donny Osmond is brilliant as James Jones.
If they'd been dogs, they would have all been in the yard eating grass and trying to yak up whatever was making them feel so lousy. Not a bone gnawed, not a ball chased-all tails went unwagged. Oh, life is a fast cat, a short leash, a flea in that place where you just can't scratch.
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