Lorrie Moore Zitate auf Englisch

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I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

Lorrie Moore

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

Lorrie Moore

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

Lorrie Moore

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

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!'

Lorrie Moore

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.

Lorrie Moore

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'

Lorrie Moore

I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.

Lorrie Moore

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

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

Lorrie Moore

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

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.'

Lorrie Moore

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.

Lorrie Moore

To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didn't have to do little exercises and stay in shape. You could have great moments of inspiration that advanced the story. In dance, unless you're going to choreograph things yourself, you're at the service of someone else.

Lorrie Moore

I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless.

Lorrie Moore