Ask Quote by Lorrie Moore Download Open image “Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.” — Lorrie Moore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ask Asks Books Even Ifs Myself Novel Novels Respectable Sometimes Writing
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate. — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel. — David Means Copy Share Image
Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better. — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience. — Matthew Nable Copy Share Image
Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
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“If you had forgotten, it would quickly come back to you. Aloneness was like riding a bike. At gunpoint. With the gun in your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Amber was not shy. If she had been shy, not one of us would be at Perkins right now.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Farmers aren't rich. They have land but no money." Actually, my father didn't even have that much land. He had once stood on the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the already gone;… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad. — T-Pain Copy Share Image
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Every morning when I pick up the newspaper and read about an earthquake in Japan or problems in European financial institutions, the first question… — Mary Schapiro Copy Share Image
I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
If you ask an actor what he'd prefer to act on, he'd probably say a tangible, real set, or even better, a real location… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer's disease. So we can now… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
I prefer department stores. In boutiques, they come up and ask you if you need help. I can't get lost in the experience. — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?' But that's not what… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
I'm not in the movie business anymore, and hardly any 70 year olds are. I always ask the producers: 'Are there no 70-year old… — Brian Dennehy Copy Share Image
