Author: Lorrie Moore

Quotes

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

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

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

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

- 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

I grew up with 'Life' magazine on the coffee table, Life cereal on the breakfast table, and the game of Life on the card table. People were just so happy to be alive, I guess.

I grew up with 'Life' magazine on the coffee table, Life cereal on the breakfast table, and the game of Life on the card table. People were just so happy to be alive, I guess.

- 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

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

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

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