« All Alice Munro Quotes
·
Amy Waldman's Page
Alice Munro Quotes by Amy Waldman
1 Alice Munro quote by Amy Waldman
More Quotes by Amy Waldman
Amy Waldman has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.
-
Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.
-
In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.
-
Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the…
-
The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes
-
In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in…
-
Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.
-
In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.
-
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge…
-
I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.
-
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
-
My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we…
See all 33 quotes by Amy Waldman »
More Alice Munro Quotes
Popular Alice Munro quotes from across the collection:
-
I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male…
— Ann Beattie
-
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
— Nell Freudenberger
-
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
— Amy Waldman
-
I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different,…
— Nell Freudenberger
-
I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction…
— Emily Perkins
-
Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and over, gazed at and studied and…
— Cathleen Schine
-
Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe…
— Cynthia Ozick
-
Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje - these are all old friends from my early 20s.
— Clark Blaise
See all Alice Munro Quotes »
Browse Amy Waldman Quotes by Category