Alice Munro Quotes & Sayings

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You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

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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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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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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.

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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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