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About Lorrie Moore
American writer, critic, and essayist
Lorrie Moore is an American writer, critic, and essayist best known for her short stories. Since 1984, she has also taught creative writing. Her fiction has brought her major awards, and her work is widely associated with the short story form. Alongside her writing, she has maintained a long teaching career in creative writing, and her essays and criticism add to a body of work shaped by close attention to language and form.
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- “Abby began to think that all the beauty and ugliness and turbulence one found scattered through nature, one c…”Lorrie Moore
- “I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.”Lorrie Moore
- “I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.”Lorrie Moore
- “If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers…”Lorrie Moore
Home: more sayings
- “I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I con…”Pope John Paul II
- “Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins…”Thomas Browne
- “I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their a…”Robin Tunney
More Friendship quotes
- “I try to live in my own little positivity bubble and to keep good people around me who encourage me and build…”Mat Fraser
- “For me, it is not about being a part of a hit or a flop. Films are about friends, learning, and experiences.…”Nithya Menen
- “To my family and friends, I'm very definitely a clown. But do you know what? Doing a drama would almost seem…”Ashley Jensen
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Books by Lorrie Moore
A Gate at the Stairs
2010
Bark
2014
Who will run the frog hospital?
1994
See what can be done
2018
Birds of America
1998