“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
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
“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
Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
