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
[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient,… — 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
You couldn't pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“You emptied the top rack of the dishwasher but not the bottom, so the clean dishes have gotten all mixed up with… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things.… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.' — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable about this," he says. Say: "Hey. I am a very cool person. I am… — 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
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