Bills Quote by Lorrie Moore Download Open image “You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.” — Lorrie Moore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bills Fiction Fiction writers Ifs Instinct Instincts Know Knows Off Our Pay Writers Writing You
Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money. — Thomas C Foster Copy Share Image
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living. — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things. — Anthony Doerr 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
“One of the problems with people in Chicago, she remembered, was that they were never lonely at the same time. Their sadness occurred in… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“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’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
[A]s you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
I will not agree to have this bill [to repeal DADT ] go forward, because our economy is in the tank. — John McCain Copy Share Image
This is not really currency that circulates. It's like the old joke about expensive vintage wine. Wine prices will go up and once in… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
There's nothing nice about Steve Jobs and there's nothing evil about Bill Gates — Chuck Peddle Copy Share Image
At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be "Clark Kent, Dentist," because you could save money on tooth… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image