“This was my modest dream come true: unambitious flight. The kind that never even got high enough for a view.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I want to create something that doesn't exist exactly in the real world, but exists in a kind of parallel to the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but,… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
What little reality television I've seen seems to be about economic desperation. Like the marathon dancing of the Great Depression, which should… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
“One of the problems with people in Chicago, she remembered, was that they were never lonely at the same time. Their sadness occurred in… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
“If you had forgotten, it would quickly come back to you. Aloneness was like riding a bike. At gunpoint. With the gun in your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
“Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
“Amber was not shy. If she had been shy, not one of us would be at Perkins right now.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
“Farmers aren't rich. They have land but no money." Actually, my father didn't even have that much land. He had once stood on the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
“My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the already gone;… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn't. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out how I'm… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read? — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
![“The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's not the same as courage. It's closer to bad manners than to courage. [...] if you're going to be a writer, you basically have to say, 'this is just who I am […]'. There's a certain…” quote by Lorrie Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/692/lorrie-moore-870_art_the-detachment-of-the-artist-is-kind-of_1687843.png)