4 Quotes & Sayings By Lyda Morehouse

Lyda Morehouse is the author of the novels, Fever Dream, which won the National Book Award in Fiction in 2006, and The Good Wife. Her fourth novel, The Orchid House, was published by Viking in 2012. She has written essays for Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, Esquire, Ms., The New Yorker, and The Atlantic Monthly. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and Best American Nonrequired Reading Read more

She teaches creative writing at George Mason University.

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Almsgiving is a major tenet of Islam. It's also a kick in the pants of the highest order. Nothing is as cool as skimming off a couple of hundred thousand from some multinational corporation and handing it out to random strangers. Or writing a harmless little virus that makes credit counters "forget" to send a surcharge back to the bank after each purchase. Oh, sure, technically I'm supposed to give away my own money, but whatever. I'm sure Allah gets the spirit of what I'm doing here. Lyda Morehouse
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Where was this written? I wondered. Where in the Talmud or the Koran or the Bible did it say, "Lo, and Satan fetcheth the coffee for the Antichrist and her minions"? Lyda Morehouse
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I never sleep. Like the dolphin and the spiny anteater, I don't experience REM. Unlike the dreamless mammals, I'm a construct. I am a living program inside a vast network of electronic impulses known as the LINK. In that datastream I've uncovered the meaning of another kind of dreaming--that of a fond hope or aspiration, a yearning, a desire, or a passion. This much I have. When I dream, I dream of Mecca. . Lyda Morehouse