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Alice Munro - From the Aging category:
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)
Alice Munro - From the Children category:
Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person. (Alice Munro)
Alice Munro - From the Complexity category:
The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple. (Alice Munro)
Alice Munro - From the Danger category:
There was a danger whenever I was on home ground. It was the danger of seeing my life through other eyes than my own. (Alice Munro)
Alice Munro - From the Experience category:
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only one place, where something has happened. And then there are the other places, which are just other places. (Alice Munro)
Alice Munro - From the Fame category:
I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing. (Alice Munro)
Alice Munro - From the Fantasy category:
A fluid choice, the choice of fantasy, is poured out on the ground and instantly hardens; it has taken its undeniable shape. (Alice Munro)
Alice Munro - From the Happiness category:
The constant happiness is curiosity. (Alice Munro)
Alice Munro - From the Information category:
- Too Much Happiness...
My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information. (Alice Munro)
Alice Munro - From the Language category:
- The Moons of Jupiter...
The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair. (Alice Munro)
Alice Munro - From the Life category:
Life would be grand if it weren't for the people. (Alice Munro)
Alice Munro - From the Life category:
It's just life. You can't beat life. (Alice Munro)
Alice Munro - From the Memory category:
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. (Alice Munro)
Alice Munro - From the Methodology category:
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)
Alice Munro - From the Miracles category:
People who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one. (Alice Munro)
Alice Munro - From the Order category:
There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. I believe this. (Alice Munro)
Alice Munro - From the Poetry category:
Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry? (Alice Munro)
Alice Munro - From the Questions category:
He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into. (Alice Munro)
Alice Munro - From the Time category:
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)
Alice Munro - From the Windows category:
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)
Alice Munro - From the Work category:
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)
Alice Munro - From the Writing category:
Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets. (Alice Munro)
Alice Munro - From the Writing category:
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)
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