Lorrie Moore Quotes

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.

Lorrie Moore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 13, 1957

Topics

ExperienceStepStoryThinkWant

My travel habit is usually to visit somewhere I have never been rather than develop a consistent relationship with a place.

Jodi Balfour

RelationshipHabitTravelPlaceBeen

It's always difficult when you're on a show that goes for more than a year or a couple of years.

Simon Baker

YearYouMoreDifficultAlwaysShow

On 'Far North,' we were always aware of being at the whim of mother nature. She's the biggest star in the film.

Michelle Yeoh

NatureMotherMother NatureSheStar

There's a village in my computer - friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It's a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with news, gossip, opinions and potential excitement.

Lisa Unger

ColleaguesPotentialFriendsOpinions

I want to get up and celebrate something - and why not celebrate being a woman?

Dawn Richard

WomanCelebrateWantWhyUpGet

My live show experience has not been good. It's just because I haven't had a band or anything. I played a show in Santa Ana that I'm just not proud of at all. It came out of the blue, and I kind of freaked out and took the opportunity because it was the biggest thing I've ever been offered.

Clairo

GoodLiveOpportunityExperience

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.

Bryant H. McGill

PowerHateAngerYouLovingYour

I was raised on jazz. My father, from the time I was born, used to get up early on Saturdays and Sundays and put on Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Kenny Burrell, Sarah Vaughn, John Coltrane - all these great, classic albums.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

FatherGreatTimeEarlyBornJazz

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

Philip Caputo

ManWarOrdinaryMostMeans

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Swami Sivananda

LoveMomentHatePeaceMindCalm

Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent.

Peter Straub

BetterYouGoSometimesEveryone

I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a romance when you're at the bottom. I think that's infinitely compelling and romantic.

Shane Carruth

LoveRomanticBrokenPeopleThink

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