All Lorrie Moore Quotes
- No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force… Actuality
- One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them. Build
- An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug. Agony
- My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of graduate… Academic
- Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable. Ask
- Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the… Entity
- A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered,… Biopsy
- Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its… All
- Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension. Buried
- I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does. All
- Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that… Best
- Literature, of course, is not a contest. Contest