" 'Tortilla Flat,' 'Cannery Row,' 'Sweet Thursday,' the comic novels. The author that Moore returns to again and again is John Steinbeck. "If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page." "You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing," he says. Moore says, "Wise-ass is my default setting." He's frequently asked if humor can be taught. His humor is often dark but never mean in battles between good and evil, good always prevails, albeit in absurd ways.
Since then, Moore has written hysterical tales of demons, vampires, trickster gods and sea monsters. I wanted to have fun with the conventions." "I wanted to do for horror what Adams did for science fiction. "As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me." Douglas Adams' irreverent sci-fi adventure, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," also inspired Moore. Moore recovered from the discovery that though he is a serious writer, he does not write serious books. "Cops get a jaded sense of the world," he says.īut when Moore began reading his stories aloud, people laughed at his turns of phrase.
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