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

Lorrie Moore

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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
Faculty Member
Novelist
Writer
Glens Falls
New York
Instinct
Writers
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Fiction
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I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.
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You emptied the top rack of the dishwasher but not the bottom, so the clean dishes have gotten all mixed up with the dirty ones - and now you want to have sex?
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I don't care if I'm a fish, I still want a bicycle.
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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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But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.
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Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.
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One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.
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Most things good for writing are bad for life.
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If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.
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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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If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.
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I always do the wrong. I do the wrong thing so much that the times I actually do the right thing stand out so brightly in my memory that I forget I always do the wrong thing.
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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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Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.
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