Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Mooreis an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth13 January 1957
CityGlens Falls, NY
CountryUnited States of America
accused drawing falsely hardly invented life petty running thief
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.
time women
I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.
I always feel that the book I'm working on is my last book.
song love-is answers
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.
girlfriend school character
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your creative writing class calls "self-contempt giving rise to comic form." Write down all of his jokes, but don't tell him you are doing this. Make up anagrams of his old girlfriend's name and name all of your socially handicapped characters with them. Tell him his old girlfriend is in all of your stories and then watch how funny he can be, see what a really great sense of humor he can have.
continue fictional imagine love music surrounded
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.
I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.
characters
I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'
thinking stories environment
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.
writing people mind
I do have people in mind when I write. I don't know precisely who they are, however, or how many of them there are.
long projects approach
If I retain any freshness of approach, it's by going slowly having long intervals between finished projects.
lines needs mood
A funny line can never exist on its own. It needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances.
goodbye emotional years
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.
magic tricks
Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.