Alice Munro
Related LYDIA MILLET COLUM MCCANN I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. Whe... ANDREA BARRETT I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. H... MIKE D HARUKI MURAKAMI It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, Joh... CAROL WINDLEY URSULA K. LE GUIN CASS MCCOMBS JOHN HUGHES A. N. WILSON DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories w... DAN HARMON I do enjoy the form of things. I enjoy finding the form that seems best to fit what I'm thinking... CARYL CHURCHILL DENNIS LEHANE I don't think I was anything short of ecstatic when I found out 'It's Kind of a Funny St... KEIR GILCHRIST AVRIL LAVIGNE PETER THIEL You know, I think there was a point in time when people didn't really understand how birth certi... JAN BREWER MAYA ANGELOU RACHEL CUSK ALICE MUNRO I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen... EMILY PERKINS QUENTIN TARANTINO JACK WELCH LOIS LOWRY LYDIA MILLET I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the ... KIRBY BLISS BLANTON What I don't like so much is people who - how do you say this? - who make judgments over the gen... JOHN DE MOL, JR. BRUCE COVILLE MARK HADDON I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it&#... CARLENE CARTER MICHAEL J. FOX LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN AARON RODGERS I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future o... MIKE LEE I don't think of people as black or white. It's a question of are they photogenic or not? I ... EILEEN FORD I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taki... ANTHONY SHADID I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff... TAHMOH PENIKETT AL GORE WALTER KIRN I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone o... LAURA LINNEY CHRIS CRUTCHER CHRIS WARE KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON AVERY BROOKS ELVIS COSTELLO VIKRAM SETH JACK VANCE REBECCA MACKINNON To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of pre... SACHA BARON COHEN I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don&#... JESS WALTER Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same con... RACHEL KUSHNER AMY TAN RACHEL DRATCH R. KELLY I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore. CAROLYN SEE CYNTHIA OZICK I've been hit in the head a lot, but I don't think I have any problems, but I can't, for... T. J. PERKINS I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as t... DAMIEN CHAZELLE NANCY GRACE I don't let many people in. I don't discuss everything. If I don't want to discuss it, I... ANOUSKA HEMPEL I think comedians should focus on what makes them happy, what art form fulfills them the most. Don&#... SCOTT AUKERMAN I long for an audience. I ache for it. I think that's one of the hardest things about the televi... BRIDGET REGAN ERIKA CHRISTENSEN I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I d... ARIJIT SINGH I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thin... ALICE EVE SEAN BEAN Honestly, I don't think we see ourselves as stars. That's what the media tags us as. I perso... DULQUER SALMAAN ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don'... PHIL ANSELMO I don't like how women's bodies are Page 3 news. I just don't think that's big news.... ELIZA DOOLITTLE FRANK OCEAN Most people don't walk around knowing what other people think about them, and I don't think ... CHRISTINA RICCI The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don... TAIYE SELASI SANDRA CISNEROS JULIA ROBERTS ALAN SHEARER I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don&#... JACQUES AUDIARD LEONARD COHEN ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH WARREN BEATTY I don't believe in fairies floating around, and I don't believe in telepathy, but there are ... ISOBELLE CARMODY I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it... W. P. KINSELLA CONOR MCGREGOR I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what... KELLI O'HARA There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I... NATALIE ZEA I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and the... TAIO CRUZ GEORGE SAUNDERS I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on tria... BEANIE SIGEL I don't think about fights that didn't happen. FEDOR EMELIANENKO PAMELA ANDERSON I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied w... AARON HUEY MIKE COLTER I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock w... BRUNO DUMONT I don't think about the media. ZARA PHILLIPS I don't mind the sparkle - I think it's kind of a tradition in skating. I don't think th... KRISTI YAMAGUCHI THERESA MAY I don't mean to be trite about abortion, but I do feel it's a woman's body, and I don... JOANNA CASSIDY A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing ... SACHEEN LITTLEFEATHER
More Alice Munro
ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO ALICE MUNRO 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 BARRY MUNRO BARRY MUNRO I can’t believe it.’ I whispered.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 HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO J. RICHARD MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO H. H. MUNRO People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, bu... WILLIAM BENNET MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO H. H. MUNRO HECTOR HUGH MUNRO 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 ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date. ALICE TEMPERLEY ALICE WATERS ALICE OSWALD ALICE WALKER ALICE WALKER 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 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 ALICE OSWALD ALICE OSWALD I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of hor... ALICE WALTON ALICE WALKER 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 ALICE COOPER ALICE WALKER 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 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 ALICE WALKER ALICE WALKER ALICE WALKER ALICE WALKER ALICE WALKER 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 ALICE COOPER ALICE WALKER I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce ... ALICE MILLER ALICE WALKER ALICE WALKER ALICE WALKER 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 ALICE WALKER ALICE JAMES ALICE WALKER 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 ALICE MILLER ALICE MILLER ALICE MILLER
I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write i... 
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I d... 
George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don&#... 
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. 
I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really ... 
I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species. 
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novel... 
I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I d... 
Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand. 
I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect... 
There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is e... 
I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it hap... 
I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on... 
I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls.... 
I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all. 
The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a b... 
I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall ... 
Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fi... 
I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I ... 
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can per... 
I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of ... 
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about. 
I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I... 
There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of fut... 
I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was b... 
I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know any... 
I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story ... 
I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let co... 
And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it o... 
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of... 
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all. 
I don't think there's any serious discussion inside the Chinese government about liberalisin... 
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I did... 
Everybody always asks about Jimmy Fallon. I'm sorry to say that he's very nice and there'... 
I don't really know the story of the Pied Piper. I don't read stories, first of all. I just ... 
I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of... 
I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what th... 
I don't have a 'Life's short, play hard' type of philosophy. That's about fear. ... 
I don't like broad swords. They're not much fun. A broad sword is just a big chunk of steel,... 
It's so funny because when I talk about fashion and menswear designers, it's really like a s... 
Boys do cry, but I don't think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years. 
I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don'... 
It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't li... 
I don't know what I believe in. I try not to think about it. I don't want to think about it. 
I don't have any sense or urgency about any of my writing, actually. I don't think mankind w... 
Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible probl... 
I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of ... 
I am in the fighting game. I don't care about anything else. I don't watch the news, I don&#... 
I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argumen... 
I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't thin... 
I'm embarrassed to say that I don't have a lot of hobbies. It's not because I don't ... 
You don't think about it at the time, but there are certain responsibilities that come with bein... 
Housework never really bothered me... what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be... 
When I'm doing the first draft, I have a so-much-a-day schedule. But when I start putting it on the ... 
You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold rig... 
I judge the relative strength of a man by how envious they become, of others, who enjoy a measure of... 
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. 
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them. 
We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim... 
It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea. 
There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ... 
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. 
I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to... 
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve. 
The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way. 
When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit... 
I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this tim... 
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire... 
One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of i... 
It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand. 
I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card. 
You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city wi... 
I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am... 
The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades. 
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where doe... 
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any ... 
The capacity of the human organism to bear pain is, for our own protection, limited. All attempts to... 
,,,It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has ...