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 I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny. Lorrie Moore dinner party tables You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise. Lorrie Moore boring persons feels Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real. Lorrie Moore electricity real made I don't care if I'm a fish, I still want a bicycle. Lorrie Moore fishes care want As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye. Lorrie Moore possession eye children Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable. Lorrie Moore novel writing sometimes This was my modest dream come true: unambitious flight. The kind that never even got high enough for a view. Lorrie Moore kind views dream I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that. Lorrie Moore spine i-realized If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says. Lorrie Moore burning-bush burning speak Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little stopped and satisfied, too healthy, in that. Better to think of writing, of what one does as an activity, rather than an identity - to write, I write; we write; to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun; to keep working at the thing, at all hours, in all places, so that your life does not become a pose, a pornography of wishing. Lorrie Moore wise writing thinking shopping for clothes is like masturbation - everyone does it, but it isn't very interesting and therefore should be done alone, in an embarrassed fashion, and never be the topic of party conversation. Lorrie Moore shopping fashion party the compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is a bit of mental wiring the species has selected, over time, in order, as the life span increases, to keep us interested in ourselves. Lorrie Moore reading writing order After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These middle-aged women seemed very tired to me, as if hope had been wrung out of them and replaced with a deathly, walking sort of sleep. Lorrie Moore fate tired sleep A funny line can never exist on its own. It needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances. Lorrie Moore mood lines needs If I retain any freshness of approach, it's by going slowly having long intervals between finished projects. Lorrie Moore projects approach long 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. Lorrie Moore mind writing people I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess. Lorrie Moore environment stories thinking A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way. Lorrie Moore deep story life way When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.' Lorrie Moore me women cute teacher 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 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place. Lorrie Moore words i-am little-things life
