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Lorrie Moore Quotes

American - Writer | January 13, 1957 -

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.

Love Live People You Bad Breathing

I grew up with 'Life' magazine on the coffee table, Life cereal on the breakfast table, and the game of Life on the card table. People were just so happy to be alive, I guess.

Life Coffee Happy People Breakfast

I want to create something that doesn't exist exactly in the real world, but exists in a kind of parallel to the real world.

World Create Want Kind Real Exist

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

You Know Pay Fiction Off Bills

If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.

Women Character Woman Writing Look

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

Funny Sad Story Down Meant To Be

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

Funny Feel You Person Know Boring

My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of graduate school and just went to work for an insurance company. But the house was full of books and music and all of that.

Work Father Music School Child

I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there's music in it for those people, too.

Love Music People Growing Up World

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

Myself Writing Sometimes Ask Even

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.

Experience Step Story Think Want

I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'

Sick Think Grow You Want Never

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