I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I can have people around a lot more because I'm not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel.… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people. — 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
Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don't obey the rules of progression… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“She hated to hear the word "escape" used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, 'Well, obviously… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either… — 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
I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, 'Read,' but a writer… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls. I don't ever… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
It's certainly true that when I was young, writing seemed to me so important that I would have sacrificed almost anything to… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I've often made revisions at that stage that turned out to be mistakes because I wasn't really in the rhythm of the… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
It must have meant something, though, that at this turn of my life I grabbed up a book. Because it was in… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn't intend to. I was going to write a novel. And… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, "Read," but a writer… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“She read modern fiction too. Always fiction. She hated to hear the word 'escape' used about fiction. She might have argued, not… — 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 was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don't think I ever gave it up, though… — 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
