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Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore
American Writer
Born: Jan 13, 1957
Funny Life People World Writing You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
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. Lorrie Moore
Life Words Little Things Too Much Invent Before Real Life Petty Thief Too Drawing Running Running Away Invented Write Take Make Because Am Real Been Falsely Up Accused Want Place Little Mean Much Away Hardly Things Start
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. Lorrie Moore
Life Local Way Penetrating Kind Small Both Layered Revealing Human Story Human Life Deep Specific
Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension. Lorrie Moore
Humor Release Some Tension Surprise Buried
You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills. Lorrie Moore
You Pay Our Writers Instincts Know Off Fiction Fiction Writers Bills
I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad. Lorrie Moore
Sad Funny Single Sit Down Every Funny Story Write Single Thing Story Meant Meant To Be Thing Every Single Thing
Nabokov's adventures in language and style and naked braininess are really unparalleled. Lorrie Moore
Language Naked Style Unparalleled Adventures Really
I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny. Lorrie Moore
Funny Dinner Party Everyone Say Dinner Party Dinner Table Table Something Never Been Where
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. Lorrie Moore
Work Music School Father Become Books Destined Out Dropped Idea Academic Academics House Himself Insurance Child Graduate Graduate School Just Full Company
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. Lorrie Moore
Love Music People World Too Those Always Continue Surrounded Up Fictional Growing Growing Up Imagine
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
Experience Think Tool Rather More Entity Step Reader Witnessing Than Just Want Story Teaching Novel
I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.' Lorrie Moore
You Think Sick Characters See Never Want Again Grow
I always feel that the book I'm working on is my last book. Lorrie Moore
Book Feel Always Working Last
Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that way. Lorrie Moore
People Some People Live Books Way Best-Seller Some Weeks Count Never Get List Just Want Then Number

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