"She hadn't been given the proper tools to……" — Lorrie Moore

"She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told, "There you go." -- Willing"

— Lorrie Moore

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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