“ I want my stories to move people… to feel some kind of reward from the writing. ”
- Alice Munroe- Copy
“ You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ She did not have time to wonder about his being late. He died bent over the sidewalk sign that stood out in front of the hardware store... He had not even had time to get into the store... ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happinesshowever temporary, however flimsyof one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
“ I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
“ I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question people who wrote novels and try to find out how they did it and how they had got past page 30. Then, with the approach of old age, I began to just think: “Well, lucky I can do anything at all. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
“ A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ I have recently re-read much of Chekhov and it's a humbling experience. I don't even claim Chekhov as an influence because he influenced all of us. Like Shakespeare his writing shed the most perfect light - there's no striving in it, no personality. Well, of course, wouldn't I love to do that! ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ When I'm doing the first draft, I have a so-much-a-day schedule. But when I start putting it on the computer I can get carried away, and I try to go as far as I can every day, as if I were going to die in the night or something. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ When I'm doing the first draft, I have a so-much-a-day schedule. But when I start putting it on the computer I can get carried away, and I try to go as far as I can every day, as if I were going to die in the night or something. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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