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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything by Lorrie Moore speaks to a certain kind of person.
- Gym
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are still married. They don't weigh 350 pounds; they go to the gym all the time.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fat because my parents were a little fat themselves at that point in their lives, and I ate what they ate.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.
- Memoir
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some journal writers choose to password-protect their site, which is either an incredibly responsible act or a paranoid one.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can act like a boy as much as I want, but when I wake up in the morning, I'm still a woman.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition to public housing, South Williamsburg is home to shabby artists' lofts like mine, apartments of Hasidic Jews, and one extremely tall, high-priced condo.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not one of those people who string their exes along. Instead, I run and hide: under the covers, behind my computer screen, on opposite coasts of the country.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love books, and I love books, and that is all I really need to know. If they are friendly to me, then we are clearly soul mates.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'The Odyssey,' every feast is extremely ritualized; high-status individuals even get a better cut of meat.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know much about any of the Hasidim because the men won't talk to me because I'm a woman, and the women won't talk to me because, while I am Jewish, I'm not Hasidic.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each other on the street.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
No offense to Bushwick, where all my neighbors greeted me on the street and there is a growing arts community and a curious beauty to its industrial zone, but Bushwick is no Williamsburg, even if the real estate agents would have you believe it is.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years I'd thought my color was black: deep, dark, thoughtful, mysterious. Black, you can hide behind. But now I know it is red.
- Lifetime
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.
- Grudge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way - 'Where have our manners gone?' - but because I love objects, I love paper, and I love something that I can hold to my chest for a moment. Still, I bear no grudge against the e-mail form itself.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I check my phone first thing when I wake up in the morning. I usually take it up with me to bed so it's on the floor next to the bed, although not actually in bed with me, because I really do not want to be the person who sleeps with their phone.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Twitter feed is probably my biggest resource of news. Other people scour the web so I do not have to, and I thank them for it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is made, where it's coming from, how much to consume. There are so many layers to it.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe I wouldn't hit three fast food restaurants in a day, but I could hit one in a day. I try not to do that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food and love are all intertwined at our core level. It can be a very nurturing, wonderful, loving thing.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the wintertime I like macaroni and cheese.
- Listen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listen: I'm OK cute. I'm no stunner.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know the bestseller 'Gone Girl' doesn't need an ounce of support from me, but that book was as sharp and witty as they come.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young adult novels don't shy away from the discussion of weight issues, and 'Blubber,' the tale of an overweight, not-so-sympathetic fifth-grader bullied by her peers, is a refreshing take.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we are young - or even 32 - we often say 'yes' to everything because we're worried that we won't know what we'll like if we don't try it.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you often find yourself uttering the phrase, 'I feel like I should go?' You do not need to go. You are busy that night. You are busy every night, forever.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020