10 Quotes by Alice Munro
- 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.
- The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
- That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
- 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.
- Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Success is often just the event horizon consecutive failures that lights the way.
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