Quote

I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

Alice Munro

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Wingham
Ontario
Alice Ann Munro
Alice Ann Laidlaw
Alice Ann Laidlaw Munro
Alice Laidlaw
Alice Anne Munro
Writing
Bridges
Things
Tennis
Time
Admire
People
Seemed
Window
Looking
Learn
Bridge
Play
Hasn

More quotes by Alice Munro

Image
In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.
Alice Munro
Image
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
Image
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.
Alice Munro
Image
The constant happiness is curiosity.
Alice Munro
Image
You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
Alice Munro
Image
Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.
Alice Munro
Image
Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.
Alice Munro
Image
A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside it altered by being viewed from these windows.
Alice Munro
Image
She would live now, not read.
Alice Munro
Image
Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance class.
Alice Munro
Image
His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain.
Alice Munro
Image
I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.
Alice Munro
Image
There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. I believe this.
Alice Munro
Image
Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.
Alice Munro
Image
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 children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
Alice Munro
Image
Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.
Alice Munro
Image
People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life.
Alice Munro
Image
And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.
Alice Munro
Image
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
Alice Munro
Image
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 got a novel.
Alice Munro