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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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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
Faculty Member
Novelist
Writer
Glens Falls
New York
Life
Complex
Remains
Story
Stories
Character
Ongoing
Littles
Frozen
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Author
Different
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But family life sometimes had a vortex, like weather. It could be like a tornado in a quiet zigzag: get close enough and you might see within it a spinning eighteen-wheeler and a woman.
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Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a thing to say. Limit these thoughts to no more than ten minutes a day like sit-ups, they can make you thin
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Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared.
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You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.
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Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around.
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Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.
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I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all!
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The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.
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Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.
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They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
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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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(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.
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Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.
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When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because it meant that at least you had said hello to it to begin with.
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It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.
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Most things good for writing are bad for life.
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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.
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When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will show on your face and change it. But sad only for others, not for yourself. You will feel you have a kind of wisdom, very mistaken, but a mistake of some power to you and so you will sadly treasure it and grow it.
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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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If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in a magical and enlivening way, we will listen to the story. But if the language doesn't cast a spell, we will listen to it only if it is telling us something that actually happened.
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