All Lorrie Moore Quotes
- 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… Emotional
- 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
- 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… All
- 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… All
- 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.… All
- There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree. Inspirational
- 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… Activity
- 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… Advice
- 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… Art
- Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery. Art
- 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… Animal
- To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night. Able
- Most things good for writing are bad for life. Bad
- 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… Actuality
- 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… Daily
- A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary. Dark
- If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write. Creating
- 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… Abilities
- People will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh, Anything Anything
- I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny. Been
- You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise. Boring
- Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real. Electricity
- I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are… Actual
- (Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart. Country
- Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself. Arrangement