I’ve never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn’t say something funny. Lorrie Moore Read Quote
You know, I’m just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don’t feel pressured to be otherwise. Lorrie Moore Read Quote
My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of graduate school and just went to work for an insurance company. But the house was full of books and music and all of that. Lorrie Moore Read Quote
I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, ‘I never want to see you again.’ Lorrie Moore Read Quote
When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, ‘Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.’ Lorrie Moore Read Quote
I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does. Lorrie Moore Read Quote
