The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel, — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Some of the stories I admire seem to zero in on one particular time and place. There isn't a rule about this.… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Naturally my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men who write mostly… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share
“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east… — Alice Munro Copy Share
“Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further every night on the deck. (Averill often told herself… — Alice Munro Copy Share
“Something happened here. In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, were something happened, and then there are… — Alice Munro Copy Share
The thing is to be happy, no matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to… — Alice Munro Copy Share
What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as… — Alice Munro Copy Share
“Children Katy's age had no problem with monotony. In fact they embraced it, diving into it and wrapping the familiar words round their tongues… — Alice Munro Copy Share
“This is what happens. You put it away for a little while, and now and again you look in the closet for something else… — Alice Munro Copy Share
She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak… — Alice Munro Copy Share
The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair. — Alice Munro Copy Share
I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a… — Alice Munro Copy Share
“You would think as you get older your mind would fill up with what they call the spiritual side of things, but mine just… — Alice Munro Copy Share
Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted [to write… — Alice Munro Copy Share
