Quote

I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.

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
Attention
Despised
Much
Lofty
Would
Tender
Life
Romance
Seriously
Liked
Notion
Took
Antics

More quotes by Alice Munro

Image
Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.
Alice Munro
Image
The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
Alice Munro
Image
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
Image
I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.
Alice Munro
Image
It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust.
Alice Munro
Image
The constant happiness is curiosity.
Alice Munro
Image
The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.
Alice Munro
Image
Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.
Alice Munro
Image
He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.
Alice Munro
Image
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
Alice Munro
Image
Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.
Alice Munro
Image
One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.
Alice Munro
Image
I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same.
Alice Munro
Image
They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.
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
Image
I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not like a road to follow, it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while.
Alice Munro
Image
For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief.
Alice Munro
Image
The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.
Alice Munro
Image
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
Alice Munro
Image
Hatred is always a sin, my mother told me. Remember that. One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk. I was struck by that and meant to try it, but knew I shouldn’t waste the milk.
Alice Munro