Alice Munro quote: "I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that's the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don't understand."

Housework never really bothered me... what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be...
ALICE MUNRO

When I'm doing the first draft, I have a so-much-a-day schedule. But when I start putting it on the ...
ALICE MUNRO

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the thin...
ALICE MUNRO

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about yo...
ALICE MUNRO

That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
ALICE MUNRO

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat differ...
ALICE MUNRO

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is ea...
ALICE MUNRO

I don't think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes ...
ALICE MUNRO

I'm sorry I'm not able to be here. It is this attention of yours that has helped me to flourish for ...
ALICE MUNRO

The Love of a Good Women.
ALICE MUNRO

Sometimes I read one of my stories, maybe one that I wrote thirty years ago, and I think, Now I'd go...
ALICE MUNRO

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the ...
ALICE MUNRO

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as peop...
ALICE MUNRO

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually u...
ALICE MUNRO

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

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then t...
ALICE MUNRO

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way ever...
ALICE MUNRO

Writers are always writing about infidelity. It's so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy...
ALICE MUNRO

A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a ...
ALICE MUNRO

There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there ...
ALICE MUNRO

Captain Tervitt had been a real captain, for many years, on the lake boats. Now he had a job as a sp...
ALICE MUNRO

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finis...
ALICE MUNRO

William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to wr...
ALICE MUNRO

That is pretty well what the doctor said, in a lot more careful words. He says that the pills he's g...
ALICE MUNRO

I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, ...
ALICE MUNRO

In those early days, the important thing was the happy ending. I did not tolerate unhappy endings - ...
ALICE MUNRO

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
ALICE MUNRO

What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing...
ALICE MUNRO

Then he said the funny thing was the old man himself had left home when he was a kid, after a fight ...
ALICE MUNRO

She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking ...
ALICE MUNRO

Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.
ALICE MUNRO

گريس خودش نمي دانست چقدر سرد است، فكر مي كرد اشتياقي كه ...
ALICE MUNRO

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about yo...
ALICE MUNRO

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And thi...
ALICE MUNRO

In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes th...
ALICE MUNRO

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything h...
ALICE MUNRO

I have recently re-read much of Chekhov and it's a humbling experience. I don't even claim Chekhov a...
ALICE MUNRO

I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there ha...
ALICE MUNRO

I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange wor...
ALICE MUNRO

The constant happiness is curiosity.
ALICE MUNRO

I had my first baby at twenty-one.
ALICE MUNRO

I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don't obey th...
ALICE MUNRO

Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further ever...
ALICE MUNRO

It was a most insistent place but nobody seemed to be overwhelmed by all the insistence.
ALICE MUNRO

I'm always trying. Between every book, I think, 'Well now, it's time to get down to the ...
ALICE MUNRO

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people's lives present themselve...
ALICE MUNRO

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don't think I could ...
ALICE MUNRO

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our...
ALICE MUNRO

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was 'call attention to yourself,&#...
ALICE MUNRO

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and ...
ALICE MUNRO

I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls....
ALICE MUNRO

That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
ALICE MUNRO

I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, ...
ALICE MUNRO

Naturally, my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men w...
ALICE MUNRO

The game was pretty well played defensively by both teams. It's a great feeling to get the shutout, ...
ADAM MUNRO

They made some pretty good shots. They seemed to take advantage of their power plays and they've obv...
ADAM MUNRO

It's good to get back in there and have a pretty solid game. It's a great feeling to get two points....
ADAM MUNRO

It's good to play well and get the result you want. The two points are the biggest thing.
ADAM MUNRO

Bad goals to give up, the first and third. I've got to be better than that. Trent did the right thin...
ADAM MUNRO

I made the first save and tried to get it in the corner, and obviously it didn't go far enough. It w...
ADAM MUNRO

I made the first save and tried to get it in the corner and obviously it didn't go far enough. It wa...
ADAM MUNRO

You feel like you should get two points in a game like that. (The winning goal) hit my stick. I trie...
ADAM MUNRO

He's been a big help. He changed my style to make me more in control. Before I was more reacting and...
ADAM MUNRO

He made a big save there. I think it hit his chest. When you're teammates come an bail out you out a...
ADAM MUNRO

Losing is a part of winning.
DICK MUNRO

You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold rig...
BARRY MUNRO

I judge the relative strength of a man by how envious they become, of others, who enjoy a measure of...
BARRY MUNRO

I can’t believe it.’ I whispered.
‘You can’t let him lure you back in, Felicia. He’s ...
CHARLOTTE MUNRO

He made a big save there. I think it hit his chest. When you're teammates come an bail out you out a...
ADAM MUNRO

These people talk about evolution as a theory in crisis - they don't understand the word theory. In ...
ALAN MUNRO

Lander did a great job. He used all of his strokes and was so mentally prepared he jumped out really...
JESS MUNRO

For me this place is absolutely sacred, it is absolutely special,
JIM MUNRO

He made a big save there. I think it hit his chest. When you're teammates come an bail out you out a...
ADAM MUNRO

Nobody works in the mine unless they have virtually no other option.
ROBIN MUNRO

She didn't jump as well as we hoped she would. She's doing it part time and jumping takes so much ti...
BILL MUNRO

I think she felt really good with it.
BILL MUNRO

Many of the British groups marched (into battle) with pipes.
BILL MUNRO

That's unbelievable. After the preliminaries, we had to adjust to not using starting blocks. I guess...
BILL MUNRO

Just look around here. There are a lot of families here.
BILL MUNRO

I stared down at my hands and saw the blood coat them, how warm and real something felt when it wasn...
CHARLOTTE MUNRO

She stayed down real well on the hurdles and her form was really good. She was really focused becaus...
BILL MUNRO

She was in the loaded heat for sure. She clipped the third hurdle with her leg again. She had a good...
BILL MUNRO

I'm really excited for our team. The guys came together to win a hard-fought, tight, ball game. They...
JAMIE MUNRO

We had a lot on our list to accomplish this season. (Beating) Valdosta was one of those. They kept u...
LYNDSAY MUNRO

They made it deep into the second day at last weekend's tournament. And they picked up right where t...
JESS MUNRO

It's funny but last year I went through the same thing. Both goalies went down at the same time, And...
ADAM MUNRO

He made a big save. He must be listening to the goaltending coach, because he used the body pretty w...
ADAM MUNRO

Avalon is full of desperate people.’ She bites at her lower lip this time, fumbling her hands, kni...
CHARLOTTE MUNRO

But we aren't a camping family.
JAMIE MUNRO

It was amazing. You had two huge crowds on the same night. You'd think they'd take away from each ot...
JAMIE MUNRO

It's grown so fast, it's hard to find the expertise for a start-up program.
JAMIE MUNRO

We had a good game today. Jeb had a great game and we had some guys really step up for us on both th...
JAMIE MUNRO

Ultimately, we didn't end up getting some breaks we needed to get an upset. Virginia has a great tea...
JAMIE MUNRO

When you're 22 years old, you may or may not be a man. (Snider) is a man. He has been through a lot ...
JAMIE MUNRO

I think we really try to make our guys multi-dimensional. We want complete players.
JAMIE MUNRO

That's not going to happen. You become smarter. You learn from your mistakes. It's not going to happ...
LYNDSAY MUNRO

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact th...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, whil...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.
J. RICHARD MUNRO

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one go...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul,...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blam...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, bu...
WILLIAM BENNET MUNRO

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood tha...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's...
H. H. MUNRO

Women and elephants never forget an injury
H. H. MUNRO

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
H. H. MUNRO

I always say beauty is only sin deep.
H. H. MUNRO

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to...
H. H. MUNRO

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
H. H. MUNRO

Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for ...
H. H. MUNRO

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're stillborn
H. H. MUNRO

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong th...
H. H. MUNRO

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim...
H. H. MUNRO

The young have aspirations that will never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never ha...
H. H. MUNRO

His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect
H. H. MUNRO

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally
H. H. MUNRO

People yield more consideration to a mutilated mealtime or a broken night's rest than ever they woul...
H. H. MUNRO

In baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse
H. H. MUNRO

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
H. H. MUNRO

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO

In respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of [Joyce's] characters, it m...
JOHN MUNRO WOOLSEY

But my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that, whilst in many places the effect of "Ulys...
JOHN MUNRO WOOLSEY

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL

I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.
ALICE TEMPERLEY

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ALICE WATERS

When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit...
ALICE OSWALD

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this tim...
ALICE WALKER

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire...
ALICE WALKER

It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated...
ALICE WALKER

After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER

Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new ...
ALICE DREGER

One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of i...
ALICE OSWALD

The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye ...
ALICE OSWALD

I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of hor...
ALICE WALTON

It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.
ALICE WALKER

I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.
ALICE SEBOLD

My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' ...
ALICE BRAGA

What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the int...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city wi...
ALICE COOPER

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with fo...
ALICE WALKER

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house th...
ALICE WALKER

We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.
ALICE BLOCH

Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how I'd describe my style.
ALICE TEMPERLEY

I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am...
ALICE POTTER

I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean mys...
ALICE ENGLERT

I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If every...
ALICE BRAGA

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any
ALICE WALKER

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
ALICE WALKER

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make you...
ALICE WALKER

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have
ALICE WALKER

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre...
ALICE WALKER

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some...
ALICE WALKER

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth...
ALICE KOLLER

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
ALICE COOPER

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,...
ALICE WALKER

I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce ...
ALICE MILLER

The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native gro...
ALICE WALKER

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch...
ALICE WALKER

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
ALICE WALKER

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that t...
ALICE WALKER

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of ye...
ALICE MEYNELL

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can writ...
ALICE WALKER

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where doe...
ALICE JAMES

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the childr...
ALICE WALKER

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any ...
ALICE JAMES

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
ALICE MEYNELL

Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because...
ALICE LOWE

We have met numerous times as a neighborhood. We are united in our opposition.
ALICE MOORE

These men, whether laicized, defrocked, or restricted from ministry, continue to pose a threat to al...
ALICE MOORE

I thought if someone is willing to donate them, we're willing to take them. It never hurts to ask.
ALICE MOORE

We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title bo...
ALICE MOORE

Having separate proceedings will allow the NRC to fully assess the specific characteristics of each ...
ALICE MOORE

We were very concerned about a monopoly and really focused on opportunities to bring new retailers t...
ALICE MOORE

Our goal here is to provide low prices on high-quality products and excellent services to consumers ...
ALICE MOORE

The goal here is to provide opportunities for new retailers to enter our marketplace.
ALICE MOORE

The capacity of the human organism to bear pain is, for our own protection, limited. All attempts to...
ALICE MILLER

The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painfu...
ALICE MILLER

,,,It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has ...
ALICE MILLER

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that's the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don't understand.

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I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that's the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don't understand.

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