Quotes About Lorrie Moore

I had one elegantly folded cookie—a short paper nerve baked in an ear.

As a feminist you mustn't blame the other woman," a neighbor told her. "As a feminist I request that you no longer speak to me," Kit replied.)

Also, he had the kind of mustache a college roommate of hers used to say looked like it had crawled up to find a warm spot to die.

Unless you have a life of great importance, she said, regrets are stupid, crumpled-up tickets to a circus that has already left town.

Bucks, doe — thank God everything boils down to money, I always say. During mating season the doe constructs a bed for herself, and then she urinates all around the outside of it. That's how she gets her mate. So that's it, murmured Odette. I was always peeing in the bed.

Unless you have a life of great importance, regrets are stupid, crumpled-up tickets to a circus that has already left town.

Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.

I had one elegantly folded cookie—a short paper nerve baked in an ear.