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You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

Alice Munro

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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
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Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.
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And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.
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Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
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For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel.
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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.
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The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.
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And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?
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It's certainly true that when I was young, writing seemed to me so important that I would have sacrificed almost anything to it ... Because I thought of the world in which I wrote -- the world I created -- as somehow much more enormously alive than the world I was actually living in.
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I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.
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Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.
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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
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Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance class.
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I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide - sometimes from the children but more often from the jobs to be done and the phone ringing and the sociability of the neighborhood. I wanted to hide so that I could get busy at my real work, which was a sort of wooing of distant parts of myself.
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The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.
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I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have a value absolutely unconnected with anything they know about themselves.
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You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.
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Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted [to write down] was every last thing, every layer of speech and thought, stroke of light on bark or walls, every smell, pothole, pain, crack, delusion, held still and held together-radiant, everlasting.
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What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it.
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Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.
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