Quotes by Lorrie Moore

About Lorrie Moore:

Lorrie Moore is an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories.
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I looked in vain for LaRoue, my cruelty toward her now in me like a splinter, where it would sit for years in my helpless memory, the skin growing around; what else can memory do? It can do nothing; It pretends to eat the shrapnel of your acts, yet i...

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I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart so invaded with other people and their speech, friends I believed I was devoted to, people whose lives I can simply guess at now, that it gives me the impre...

Lorrie Moore

I was Baptist and had always prayed, in a damp squint, for things not to happen. Sils was a Catholic, and so she prayed for things to happen, for things to come true. She prayed for love here and now. I prayed for no guns.

Lorrie Moore

Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.

Lorrie Moore

I want to create something that doesn't exist exactly in the real world, but exists in a kind of parallel to the real world.

Lorrie Moore

Nabokov's adventures in language and style and naked braininess are really unparalleled.

Lorrie Moore

I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'

Lorrie Moore

I always feel that the book I'm working on is my last book.

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It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.

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I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.

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You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

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Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

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I'm a little harsh. When people say, 'I have writers block. What do you suggest?' I say, 'If you can't write, don't write. No one needs your writing. Don't torture yourself.'

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Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that way.

Lorrie Moore

Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'

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Literature, of course, is not a contest.

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though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken?

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The passive voice could always be used to obscure blame.

Lorrie Moore

[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no matter what interruptions occur, people so badly want to return to their lives and get on with them. A v...

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But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.

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Divorce, she could see, would be like marriage - a power grab, as in who would be the dog, and who would be the owner of the dog.

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Author Bio

  • NameLorrie Moore
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornJanuary 13, 1957
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Faculty
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship