I'm always trying. Between every book, I think, 'Well now, it's time to get down to the serious stuff.' — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Love dies all the time, or at any rate it becomes distracted, overlaid--it might as well be dead.” — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“She did not have time to wonder about his being late. He died bent over the sidewalk sign that stood out in… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“When two human beings divided by hostility are both, at the same time, mystified—no, frightened—by the same apparition, there is a bond… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother's illness. She had Parkinson's disease,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just… — 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
“My mother had not let anything go. Inside that self we knew, which might at times appear blurred a bit, or sidetracked,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time… — 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
“Here they found themselves year after year- a group of busy, youngish women who had eased their cars impatiently through the archaic… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“These are not sentimental keepsakes. She never looks at them, and often forgets what she has there. They are not booty, they… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“The dark and the snow are too thick for him to see beyond the first trees. He’s been in there before at… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“He tells me how the Great Lakes came to be. All where Lake Huron is now, he says, used to be flat… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“For a long while the past drops away from you easily and it would seem automatically, properly. Its scenes don't vanish so… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“There are times when girls are inspired, when they want the risks to go on and on. They want to be heroines,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time… — 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
'Royal Beatings' was my first story, and it was published in 1977. But I sent all my early stories to 'The New… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“The tiny share we have of time appalls me, though my father seems to regard it with tranquillity.” — 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
Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire. — 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 can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for.… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I would have a flick of fear, as in a dream when you find yourself in the wrong building or have forgotten… — 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
“Corrie said she was glad that what they were doing—what they had just done—appeared not to bother him, in spite of his… — 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
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
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 Image
