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10 quotes by Alice Munro

Alice Ann Munro (/ˈælɨs ˌæn mʌnˈroʊ/, née Laidlaw /ˈleɪdlɔː/; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian author. Munro's work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade." Munro's fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario. Her stories explore...
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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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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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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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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... →

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That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

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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... →

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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.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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