Lorrie Moore (born Marie Lorena Moore on January 13, 1957) is an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories. Read full biography of Lorrie Moore →
I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10... →
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.
Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me.... →
If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to... →
I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.
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... →
Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and... →
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... →
I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.
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... →
You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.
An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.
Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.
Lorrie Moore (born Marie Lorena Moore on January 13, 1957) is an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories.