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Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

Alice Munro

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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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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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So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which can make me flaunt my losses.
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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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Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.
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The constant happiness is curiosity.
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Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to give to writing, stories would just be working in my head for so long that when I started to write I was deep into them. Now, I do that work by filling notebooks.
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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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Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.
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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
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The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
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The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.
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It’s just life. You can’t beat life.
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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.
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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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People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.
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