Quote

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

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
Stroke
Strokes
Lightning
Anywhere
Lead
Next
Doe

More quotes by Alice Munro

Image
One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.
Alice Munro
Image
The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
Alice Munro
Image
You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.
Alice Munro
Image
The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.
Alice Munro
Image
Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.
Alice Munro
Image
There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.
Alice Munro
Image
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
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 my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn't mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish.
Alice Munro
Image
The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.
Alice Munro
Image
Things have changed, ofcourse. There are counsellors at the ready. Kindness and understanding. Life is harder for some, we're told. Not their fault, even if the blows are purely imgainery. Felt just as keenly by the recipient, or the non recipient, as the case may be. But good use can be made of everything, if you are willing.
Alice Munro
Image
That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
Alice Munro
Image
What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given.
Alice Munro
Image
People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.
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
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
Alice Munro
Image
She would live now, not read.
Alice Munro
Image
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
Alice Munro
Image
I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and I would question people who wrote novels and try to find out how they did it and how they had got past page 30. Then, with the approach of old age, I began to just think: “Well, lucky I can do anything at all.
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