I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable about this," he says. Say: "Hey. I am a very cool person. I am tough." Show him your bicep. Lorrie Moore More Quotes by Lorrie Moore More Quotes From Lorrie Moore The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. None of us was in the same story. We were all grotesques, and self-riveted, but in separate narratives, and so our interactions seemed weird and richly meaningless, like the characters in a Tennessee Williams play, with their bursting unimportant, but spell-bindingly mad speeches. Lorrie Moore self play character 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. Lorrie Moore identity writing thinking She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love. Lorrie Moore bravery opportunity 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? Lorrie Moore want sex dirty She had, without realizing it at the time, learned to follow Nick's gaze, learned to learn his lust...his desires remained memorized within her. She looked at the attractive women he would look at...She had become him: she longed for these women. But she was also herself, and so she despised them. She lusted after them, but she also wanted to beat them up. A rapist. She had become a rapist, driving to work in a car. Lorrie Moore car lust desire It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative. Lorrie Moore being-a-girl girl creative Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether. Lorrie Moore raises teenager dying I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart so invaded with other people and their speech, friends I believed I was devoted to, people whose lives I can simply guess at now, that it gives me the impression I am simply a collection of them, that they all existed for themselves, but had inadvertently formed me, then vanished. But, what: Should I have been expected to create my own self, out of nothing, out of thin, thin air and alone? Lorrie Moore air heart thinking 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 Lorrie Moore limits wonder writing To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didnt have to do little exercises and stay in shape. You could have great moments of inspiration that advanced the story. In dance, unless youre going to choreograph things yourself, youre at the service of someone else. Lorrie Moore inspiration exercise writing Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks. Lorrie Moore tricks magic 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. Lorrie Moore junk cells brain 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 experience it as a story. Lorrie Moore tools teaching thinking I don't have a love life. I have a like life. Lorrie Moore love-life I wished for eternal and intriguing muteness. I would be the Mysterious Dumb Girl, the Enigmatic Elf. The human voice no longer interested me. Lorrie Moore voice girl dumb An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story. Lorrie Moore different stories character We had put almost all of our possessions in storage, which was a metaphor for being twenty, as were so many things. Lorrie Moore metaphor possession twenties There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree. Lorrie Moore yellow tree A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary. Lorrie Moore pages-turning scary dark This was love, I supposed, and eventually I would come to know it. Someday it would choose me and I would come to know its spell, for long stretches and short, two times, maybe three, and then quite probably it would choose me never again. Lorrie Moore three two long
