American - Writer | January 13, 1957 -
I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.
Lorrie Moore
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Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'
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Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.
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I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.
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I always feel that the book I'm working on is my last book.
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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.
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Nabokov's adventures in language and style and naked braininess are really unparalleled.
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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!'
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I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.
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An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.
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A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.
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Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.
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