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Want 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…
- What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent?…
- I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak herb…
- What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to…
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