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Lorrie Moore Quotes: "This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic."

This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things."

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.




Lorrie Moore Quotes: "Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety."

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film."

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.




Lorrie Moore Quotes: "One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them."

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die."

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime."

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.




Lorrie Moore Quotes: "The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'"

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write."

If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "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."

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.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart."

(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation."

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.




Lorrie Moore Quotes: "But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless."

But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused."

Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night."

To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy."

You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "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."

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.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?"

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover there like the dare of a cat."

Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover there like the dare of a cat.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!"

This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself."

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry."

If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it."

I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension."

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "All the world's a stage we're going through."

All the world's a stage we're going through.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "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."

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.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "Love is the answer, said the songs, and that's OK. It was OK, I supposed, as an answer. But no more than that. It was not a solution; it wasn't really even an answer, just a reply."

Love is the answer, said the songs, and that's OK. It was OK, I supposed, as an answer. But no more than that. It was not a solution; it wasn't really even an answer, just a reply.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one."

Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all!"

I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all!



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills."

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "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."

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.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "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"

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 Quotes: "I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are being funny. Rhythm is key."

I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are being funny. Rhythm is key.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "I wondered about the half-life of regret."

I wondered about the half-life of regret.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "Plots are for dead people."

Plots are for dead people.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing."

The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library."

It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "We were in dialogue that was about something other than what we were saying."

We were in dialogue that was about something other than what we were saying.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for."

I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "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"

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



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real."

Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend."

A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy."

Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug."

An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "People will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh."

People will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says."

If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away."

Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination."

One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.



Lorrie Moore Quotes: "You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise."

You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.