Resinous Quotes by Alice Munro

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• Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
• You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
• I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to…
• A story is not like a road to followit's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while,…
• Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in…
• I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
• What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be…
• The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
• Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child…
• I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and…
• For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,
• I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around…

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