Lorrie Moore Quotes

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• Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When…
• Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or at least they…
• All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe light love, lost…
• Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know…
• For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other.…
• There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.
• Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a…
• 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…
• 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…
• Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.
• If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your preposition. It does…
• To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.
• Most things good for writing are bad for life.
• People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that…
• A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely…
• A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary.
• If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.
• If I had a staff of even one person, or could tolerate a small amphetamine habit, or entertain the possibility of weekly blood transfusions, or…
• People will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh,
• I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

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