Author: Lorrie Moore

Quotes

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.

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.

- Lorrie Moore

You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.

You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.

- Lorrie Moore

I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

- Lorrie Moore

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!'

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!'

- Lorrie Moore

An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.

An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.

- Lorrie Moore

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.

- Lorrie Moore

A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.

A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.

- Lorrie Moore

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

- 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.

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.

- Lorrie Moore

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