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Writing Quotes by Lorrie Moore
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a…
- Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.
- Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your…
- I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one…
- A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
- Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold