All Alice Munro Quotes
- 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… Always Turns
- Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted [to write down]… Amazing
- It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, "Read," but a writer can read too… Able
- The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your… Children
- I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I… Day
- Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets. Better
- Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. Different Version
- 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. But what there… Admire
- The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple. Chaos
- In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I… Cover
- In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to… Day
- I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that… Astonishing
- The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through… Autobiographical
- There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to… Amount
- You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations. Anywhere
- People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going… All
- Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly. Badly
- The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming. Conversation
- I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim… Anything Else
- Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies? Able
- There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category in their minds… Ached
- If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I… Address
- When I told him on the phone that after all you and I would not be getting married, he said "Oh-oh. Do you think you'll… All
- Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind. Especially
- For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw… Each