Lorrie Moore

But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but,…

— Lorrie Moore

I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless.

— Lorrie Moore

“One of the problems with people in Chicago, she remembered, was that they were never lonely at the same time. Their sadness…

— Lorrie Moore

“If you had forgotten, it would quickly come back to you. Aloneness was like riding a bike. At gunpoint. With the gun…

— Lorrie Moore

Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.

— Lorrie Moore

“Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after…

— Lorrie Moore

Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and…

— Lorrie Moore

You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.

— Lorrie Moore

“Amber was not shy. If she had been shy, not one of us would be at Perkins right now.”

— Lorrie Moore

People will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh,

— Lorrie Moore

“Farmers aren't rich. They have land but no money." Actually, my father didn't even have that much land. He had once stood…

— Lorrie Moore

“My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the…

— Lorrie Moore

I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn't. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out…

— Lorrie Moore

“Life is sad. Here is someone.”

— Lorrie Moore

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

— Lorrie Moore

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with…

— Lorrie Moore

“His eyes were caught in the headlights of something - foreign policy?”

— Lorrie Moore

“I used to think that those essentially happy and romantic novels that ended with a wedding were all wrong, that they had…

— Lorrie Moore

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing…

— Lorrie Moore

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

— Lorrie Moore

We were in dialogue that was about something other than what we were saying.

— Lorrie Moore

She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant…

— Lorrie Moore

“From here on in, many things can happen. But the main one will be this: you decide not to go to law…

— Lorrie Moore

“I don't have a love life. I have a like life.' Mamie smiled. She thought how nice that might be, to be…

— Lorrie Moore

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