Quotes by : Lorrie Moore

I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.

I would be a genius now,” Quilty has said three times already, “if only I’d memorized Shakespeare....

My new apartment might be a place where there are lots of children. They might gather on my porch to....

This is why a woman makes things up: Because when she dies, those lives she never got to are all going....

But there was in the air that kind of distortion that bent you a little; it caused your usual self to....

Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it....

In the Dictionary 'lumpy jaw' comes just before 'lunacy,' but in life there are no such clues. Suddenly,....

I watched my friend Eleanor give birth," she said. "Once you've seen a child born, you realize a baby's....

Guns, she was reminded then, were not for girls. They were for boys. They were invented by boys. They....

So much urgent and lifelike love went rumbling around underground and died there, never got expressed....