"If one publishes, then one is creating a……" — Lorrie Moore

"If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write."

— Lorrie Moore

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112 Quotes by Lorrie Moore

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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…
Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of…
All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic…
Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity.…
For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick…
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…
The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother…
The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes…
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,…
To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.

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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating… — Giorgio Armani
Research is creating new knowledge. — Neil Armstrong
Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas. — Joe Baca
You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into… — Christian Bale
I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films… — Drew Barrymore
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which… — Warren G. Bennis
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. — Henri Bergson
Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of… — Jello Biafra
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one. — Brad Bird
And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't… — Michael Bloomberg
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so… — Niels Bohr
Designers don't put out the same sweater every year. They just keep creating. — Elayne Boosler

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