Lorrie Moore Quotes

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

Like lots of people who say, 'I'm going to write a novel,' it's actually more comfortable to think I could write a novel than to discover that you can't.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

Novel writing is solitary work.

So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.