Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Mooreis an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth13 January 1957
CityGlens Falls, NY
CountryUnited States of America
nice college views
Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.
long projects approach
If I retain any freshness of approach, it's by going slowly having long intervals between finished projects.
writing years creating
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 publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.
writing creating records
If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.
lines needs mood
A funny line can never exist on its own. It needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances.
writing gossip people
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 it's largely not true. Fiction writing is like gossip. It's not malicious gossip, but it's gossip.
honesty mean letters
Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce
heart house belief
You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.
lack-of-love way farce
The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.
writing night able
To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.
lonely children ambition
I tried not to think about my life. I did not have any good solid plans for it long-term - no bad plans either, no plans at all - and the lostness of that, compared with the clear ambitions of my friends (marriage, children, law school), sometimes shamed me. Other times in my mind I defended such a condition as morally and intellectually superior - my life was open and ready and free - but that did not make it less lonely.
flower wind sea
No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being.
jokes
Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.
goodbye important way
When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because it meant that at least you had said hello to it to begin with...