Here are some optional videos if you're interested in what Moore says about her writing. She is funny and charming.
At the New Yorker Festival, 2010 [1:24:05]
"It would be boring to write something that you've already lived. But you can live something, or encounter something, or see something or hear something, and get very interested in it, and then you start to write a story, and you're borrowing from this and your borrowing from that. It's all a mix; it's a collage."
[9:47]
"I do feel that the texture of life contains a lot of comedy."