Lorrie Moore Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father.' And you know what they say? 'I could never do that!'”

“A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.”

“I always feel that the book I'm working on is my last book.”

“I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.”

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

“I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.”

“Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.”

“Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'”