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
dream views kind
This was my modest dream come true: unambitious flight. The kind that never even got high enough for a view.
burning speak burning-bush
If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.
writing sometimes novel
Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.
character stories ongoing
An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.
girl creative being-a-girl
It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.
teenager dying raises
Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.
surprise release buried
Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.
inspiration writing exercise
To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didnt have to do little exercises and stay in shape. You could have great moments of inspiration that advanced the story. In dance, unless youre going to choreograph things yourself, youre at the service of someone else.
cells brain way
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.
teaching thinking stories
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.
love-life
I don't have a love life. I have a like life.
wise writing thinking
Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little stopped and satisfied, too healthy, in that. Better to think of writing, of what one does as an activity, rather than an identity - to write, I write; we write; to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun; to keep working at the thing, at all hours, in all places, so that your life does not become a pose, a pornography of wishing.
reading writing order
the compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is a bit of mental wiring the species has selected, over time, in order, as the life span increases, to keep us interested in ourselves.
forgiveness art confused
Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.