Lorrie Moore quotes - page 2

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills. (Lorrie Moore)
Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story. View quote
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The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father.' And you know what they say? 'I could never do that!' View quote
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I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for. View quote
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Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable. View quote
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Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.' View quote
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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. View quote
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All the world's a stage we're going through. View quote
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An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story. View quote
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I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read? View quote
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Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one. (Lorrie Moore)
You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise. View quote
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It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative. View quote
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