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Why is it a surprise to find ...

Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?

Alice Munro 129 quotes

I never have a problem with f...

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 I’m inundated with that poses the problem.

Alice Munro 129 quotes

Moments of kindness and recon...

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

Alice Munro 129 quotes

Anecdotes don't make good sto...

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 their anecdotes were about.

Alice Munro 129 quotes

My head was a magpie's nest l...

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Alice Munro 129 quotes

Row, row, row your boat. Gent...

Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

Alice Munro 129 quotes

I want my stories to move peo...

I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.

Alice Munro 129 quotes

The thing is to be happy, no ...

The thing is to be happy, no matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world.

Alice Munro 129 quotes

It's not possible to advise a...

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 much and be paralyzed. Or, "Don't read, don't think, just write," and the result could be a mountain of drivel. If you're going to be a writer you'll probably take a lot of wrong turns and then one day just end up writing something you have to write, then getting it better and better just because you want it to be better, and even when you get old and think, "There must be something else people do," you won't be able to quit.

Alice Munro 129 quotes

Braininess is not attractive ...

Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.

Alice Munro 129 quotes

It's certainly true that when...

It's certainly true that when I was young, writing seemed to me so important that I would have sacrificed almost anything to it ... Because I thought of the world in which I wrote -- the world I created -- as somehow much more enormously alive than the world I was actually living in.

Alice Munro 129 quotes

Writing is hard, but the more...

Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.

Alice Munro 129 quotes

There's a kind of tension tha...

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 to write a novel. I kind of want a moment that's explosive, and I want everything gathered into that.

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It almost seemed as if there ...

It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.

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Naturally my stories are abou...

Naturally my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men who write mostly about men. I'm not always sure what is meant by "feminist." In the beginning I used to say, well, of course I'm a feminist. But if it means that I follow a kind of feminist theory, or know anything about it, then I'm not. I think I'm a feminist as far as thinking that the experience of women is important. That is really the basis of feminism.

Alice Munro 129 quotes

Always remember that when a m...

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

Alice Munro 129 quotes

Usually, I have a lot of acqu...

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, stories would just be working in my head for so long that when I started to write I was deep into them. Now, I do that work by filling notebooks.

Alice Munro 129 quotes

The story fails but your fait...

The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.

Alice Munro 129 quotes

I want the reader to feel som...

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 best, for me.

Alice Munro 129 quotes

One stroke of lightning does ...

One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.

Alice Munro 129 quotes

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