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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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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.
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One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.
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Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
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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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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 stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
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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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She keeps on hoping from a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved blessings, spontaneous remissions, things of that sort.
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Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.
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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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Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.
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I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.
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Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.
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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.
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We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.
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One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.
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A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.
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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.
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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.
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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
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