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title: "12 Way Quotes By Alice Munro"
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> [I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You've got to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/i-think-when-you-are-growing-up-you-have-to-pull-apart-from-what-your/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62c/alice-munro-1231_apart_i-think-when-you-are-growing-up-you-have_2403218.png)

> [In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/in-my-own-work-i-tend-to-cover-a-lot-of-time-and-to-jump-back-and/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f5/alice-munro-1231_my-own_in-my-own-work-i-tend-to-cover-a-lot-of_274755.png)

> [I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/i-want-the-reader-to-feel-something-is-astonishing-not-the-what/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a6/alice-munro-1231_astonishing_i-want-the-reader-to-feel-something-is-a_1383822.png)

> [She keeps on hoping from a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/she-keeps-on-hoping-from-a-word-from-penelope-but-not-in-any/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b0/alice-munro-1231_blessing_she-keeps-on-hoping-from-a-word-from-pen_880821.jpg)

> [I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people's lives present themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/i-like-gaps-all-my-stories-have-gaps-it-seems-this-is-the-way-people/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9a/alice-munro-1231_gaps_i-like-gaps-all-my-stories-have-gaps-it_2382689.png)

> [Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/memory-is-the-way-we-keep-telling-ourselves-our-stories-and-telling/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb8/alice-munro-1231_different_memory-is-the-way-we-keep-telling-oursel_439675.png)

> [I just believed it easily, the way you might believe and in fact remember that you once had another set of teeth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/i-just-believed-it-easily-the-way-you-might-believe-and-in-fact/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/801/alice-munro-1231_believe_i-just-believed-it-easily-the-way-you-mi_670775.jpg)

> [If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/if-i-decided-to-send-this-to-you-where-would-i-send-it-when-i-think/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66f/alice-munro-1231_addresses_if-i-decided-to-send-this-to-you-where-w_2410938.png)

> [I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/i-want-my-stories-to-be-something-about-life-that-causes-people-to/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f76/alice-munro-1231_books_i-want-my-stories-to-be-something-about_420217.png)

> [I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/i-was-a-grade-b-housewife-maybe-a-b-minus-but-when-i-got-time-to/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f9/alice-munro-1231_anxiety_i-was-a-grade-b-housewife-maybe-a-b-minu_139686.jpg)

> [The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/the-stories-are-not-autobiographical-but-they-re-personal-in-that-way/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/220/alice-munro-1231_autobiographical_the-stories-are-not-autobiographical-but_848554.jpg)

> [This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/this-is-the-way-you-look-at-the-poorest-details-of-the-world/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e62/alice-munro-1231_being-there_this-is-the-way-you-look-at-the-poorest_1305655.jpg)

## Other authors on Way

## More by Alice Munro

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/william-maxwell-s-my-favorite-north-american-writer-i-think-and-an/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/not-very-long-ago-i-was-driving-with-my-husband-on-the-back-roads-of/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [“Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further every night on the deck. (Averill often told herself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/her-silent-singing-wrapped-around-the-story-she-was-telling-herself/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [“Something happened here. In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, were something happened, and then there are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/something-happened-here-in-your-life-there-are-a-few-places-or-maybe/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/my-head-was-a-magpie-s-nest-lined-with-such-bright-scraps-of/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/the-thing-is-to-be-happy-no-matter-what-just-try-that-you-can-it-gets/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/what-she-wants-to-do-if-she-can-get-the-time-to-do-it-is-not-so-much/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/children-katy-s-age-had-no-problem-with-monotony-in-fact-they/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [“This is what happens. You put it away for a little while, and now and again you look in the closet for something else…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/this-is-what-happens-you-put-it-away-for-a-little-while-and-now-and/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/she-sits-in-her-usual-ample-armchair-with-piles-of-books-and-unopened/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/the-images-the-language-of-pornography-and-romance-are-alike/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/i-was-a-grade-b-housewife-maybe-a-b-minus-but-when-i-got-time-to/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [She would live now, not read.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/she-would-live-now-not-read/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [“You would think as you get older your mind would fill up with what they call the spiritual side of things, but mine just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/you-would-think-as-you-get-older-your-mind-would-fill-up-with-what/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

> [Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted \[to write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/peoples-lives-in-jubilee-as-elsewhere-were-dull-simple-amazing/)

[Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/)

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