3 Quotes & Sayings By Nancy Moser

Nancy Moser is the author of the bestselling memoirs It's Okay to Laugh (Simon & Schuster), My Life with Bob (Penguin), and, most recently, What If It Happened Again (Thomas Dunne Books). Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review, and The Best American Short Stories. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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When I read a novel I am not here. I am transported to far-off places, my eyes unseeing of the words on the page, busy with a scene being played out in my mind's eye, with my ears engaged, hearing the voices carry from the pen to the present. What a lovely place to be-not here - Just Jane (Chapter Four Page 35) Nancy Moser
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There is much more to playing the clavier than playing written music. Do you realize with accompanying there is often nothing written out but the bass line--the left hand? There might be a few notations as to a suggested harmony, but it is up to me to fill in the music, at the proper volume, style, and harmony for the soloist--often instantly. I've heard it said that Bach questioned wether the soloist or the accompanist deserves the greatest glory. Nancy Moser