Lorrie Moore Quotes
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You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.
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I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'
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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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An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.
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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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It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.