List of Lorrie Moore Quotes

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Lorrie Moore
Total Quotes 138
I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, i guess.
Thinking Stories Environment
If i retain any freshness of approach, it's by going slowly having long intervals between finished projects.
Long Projects Approach
A funny line can never exist on its own. it needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances.
Needs Lines Mood
Later i would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or at least they coexisted with these states.
Sex Believe Psychosis
After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. these middle-aged women seemed very tired to me, as if hope had been wrung out of them and replaced with a deathly, walking sort of sleep.
Tired Sleep Fate
No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots.
Boots Matter Rooms
It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.
Girl Creative Being A Girl
We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things.
Twenties Metaphor Possession
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 Voice Dumb
I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. as the endurance of love.
Endurance Want
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.
Writing Thinking Identity
Love is art, not truth. it’s like painting scenery.
Art Love Is Painting
  • Born: January 13, 1957
  • Occupation: Writer
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