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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.
More from Lorrie Moore (79 quotes) →Other sayings from Lorrie Moore
- “A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of pen…”Lorrie Moore
- “To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didn't have…”Lorrie Moore
- “I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing.…”Lorrie Moore
- “Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...”Lorrie Moore
Reflections: more sayings
- “I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.”Eddie Bracken
- “Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.”Donald Hall
- “I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with just a simple ge…”Matt Kemp
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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