Lorrie Moore Quotes
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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.
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I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.
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An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.
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I'm a little harsh. When people say, 'I have writers block. What do you suggest?' I say, 'If you can't write, don't write. No one needs your writing. Don't torture yourself.'
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I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.
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Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'
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If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.
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I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.