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Stories Quotes by Alice Munro
- 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 feel some kind…
- A story is not like a road to followit's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and…
- Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
- 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 with until you…
- I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.
- A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.
- Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to give to writing,…
- There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I try…
- The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.
- Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought…
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