"I never have a problem with finding material.……" — Alice Munro
"I never have a problem with finding material. I wait for it to turn up, and it always turns up. It’s dealing with the material I’m inundated with that poses the problem."
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105 Quotes by Alice Munro
Alice Munro has 105 quotes on this site.
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Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
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You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
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I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth,…
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A story is not like a road to followit's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for…
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Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually…
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I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
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What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would…
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The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
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Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an…
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I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact…
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For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,
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I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you…
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and…
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Winter always turns into Spring.
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There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any…
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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns…
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Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any…
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Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something.…
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Winter always turns into Spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone heard or seen of winter turning back to…
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When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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That’s exactly what I’m talking about. That’s the evil that’s seducing you. The malevolent power that is crawling through your…
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What I like about cooking is that, so long as you follow the recipe exactly, everything always turns out perfect.…
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