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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
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Ongoing
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Different
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No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being.
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Plots are for dead people.
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Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.
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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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Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.
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A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary.
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If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.
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I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.
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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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Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce
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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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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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Her life her life had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hair-brush and told, There you go. She'd stood there for years, blinking and befuddled, brushing the can with the brush.
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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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They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
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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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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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I do have people in mind when I write. I don't know precisely who they are, however, or how many of them there are.
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Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.
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