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
suicidal killing-yourself known
If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.
lasts intimacy stage
Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.
photography taxidermy sneaky
I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.
editing trying ongoing
Editing is just ongoing. I don't count drafts, or know what would fully constitute a draft. But I try to fix as I go. And there's always more to fix.
fun lying discovery
What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do: who can say how anything will turn out? Therein lies the only hope for redemption, discovery, and-let’s be frank—fun, fun, fun! There might be things people will get away with. And not just motel towels. There might be great illicit loves, enduring joy, faith-shaking accidents with farm machinery. But you have to not know in order to see what stories your life’s efforts bring you. The mystery is all.
writing thinking identity
Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.
yellow tree
There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.
girl voice dumb
I wished for eternal and intriguing muteness. I would be the Mysterious Dumb Girl, the Enigmatic Elf. The human voice no longer interested me.
girl creative being-a-girl
It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.
teenager dying raises
Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.
teaching thinking stories
Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.
surprise release buried
Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.
love-life
I don't have a love life. I have a like life.
reading writing order
the compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is a bit of mental wiring the species has selected, over time, in order, as the life span increases, to keep us interested in ourselves.