A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Awkwardness is where tension is, and tension is where the story is. It's also where the comedy is, which I'm interested in;… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment… — 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
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didnt have to do… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it… — 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 Image
I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“Amber was not shy. If she had been shy, not one of us would be at Perkins right now.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
