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She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?

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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
Faculty Member
Novelist
Writer
Glens Falls
New York
Smiled
Longing
Asked
Live

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A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph a novel is a film.
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People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that it's largely not true. Fiction writing is like gossip. It's not malicious gossip, but it's gossip.
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Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.
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I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?
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Love is the answer, said the songs, and that's OK. It was OK, I supposed, as an answer. But no more than that. It was not a solution it wasn't really even an answer, just a reply.
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I don't care if I'm a fish, I still want a bicycle.
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