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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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- “I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless.”Lorrie Moore
- “I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.”Lorrie Moore
- “I was Baptist and had always prayed, in a damp squint, for things not to happen. Sils was a Catholic, and so…”Lorrie Moore
- “Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is tha…”Lorrie Moore
Explore Morality
- “If I'm all alone, then the standard for sanity is up to me entirely.”Susan Wiggs
- “I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even i…”Larry Hagman
- “The career of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who headed the Manhattan Project, draws such questions to…”Algis Valiunas
Kindness: more sayings
- “And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of…”Elton John
- “I've always been kind of deep into thrifting and secondhand clothing.”Kyle Mooney
- “For me, it is very important to believe in the kind of movies I do. 'Rang De Basanti' made me feel good about…”Vir Das
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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