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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 think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.”Lorrie Moore
- “I mean …” Dennis was saying, looking pointedly at Mave, but Mave was watching the waitress approach. Oh, life…”Lorrie Moore
- “It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.”Lorrie Moore
- “I had one elegantly folded cookie—a short paper nerve baked in an ear.”Lorrie Moore
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- “I think I was blessed with this talent for a reason. No one told me how to write a song, but I'm just good at…”Mike Posner
- “Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.”Michael Bassey Johnson
- “What appears most disquieting to me in isolation is the dilemma of how to use time. There is either too much…”Jeremy Reed
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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