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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

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Alice Munro
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 1
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The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
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She would live now, not read.
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The constant happiness is curiosity.
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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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What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent? A box of chocolates with centers like the yolks of turkey eggs. A mud doll with hollow eye sockets. A heap of roses slightly more fragrant than rotten. A package wrapped in bloody newspaper that nobody would want to open.
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Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.
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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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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.
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You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
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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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The unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in which we punish each other--I with words, Hugh with silence--for being each other. We never needed any more than that.
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He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.
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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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In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
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