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
fashion party shopping
shopping for clothes is like masturbation - everyone does it, but it isn't very interesting and therefore should be done alone, in an embarrassed fashion, and never be the topic of party conversation.
party tables dinner
I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.
boring feels persons
You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.
real electricity made
Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real.
care want fishes
I don't care if I'm a fish, I still want a bicycle.
children eye possession
As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.
editing trying ongoing
Editing is just ongoing. I don't count drafts, or know what would fully constitute a draft. But I try to fix as I go. And there's always more to fix.
interesting stories comedy
Awkwardness is where tension is, and tension is where the story is. It's also where the comedy is, which I'm interested in; when it resolves it tends to resolve toward melancholy, a certain resignation, which I find interesting as well.
writing causes sometimes
What do I do when writing isn't going well? Well, I don't write - which is symptom, cure, and cause. And then sometimes I just tell myself, as I'm writing, "I'll fix it later." And sometimes it's true, I do.
stories use narrative
If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in a magical and enlivening way, we will listen to the story. But if the language doesn't cast a spell, we will listen to it only if it is telling us something that actually happened.
reality giving dancing
What little reality television I've seen seems to be about economic desperation. Like the marathon dancing of the Great Depression, which should give us pause. People willing to eat flies and worms for a sum that is less than the weekly paycheck of the show's producer. I haven't seen "reality television" that is other than this kind of painful, sadistic exploitation of fit young people looking for agents.
photography taxidermy sneaky
I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.
jobs weekend years
A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend.
lasts intimacy stage
Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.