Top 8 Quotes by Lorrie Moore

About Lorrie Moore

These are some quotes by American author Lorrie Moore Writer, who was born on January 13, 1957.

Literature, of course, is not a contest.

Literature, of course, is not a contest.

Lorrie Moore

It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.

It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.

Lorrie Moore

I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless.

I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless.

Lorrie Moore

I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.

I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.

Lorrie Moore

Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'

Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'

Lorrie Moore

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'

Lorrie Moore

Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that way.

Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that way.

Lorrie Moore

If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.

Lorrie Moore

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