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Alice Munro
11 quotes
“People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. 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. And they may get it wrong, after all. I may have got it wrong.”
Alice Munro (1931–2024) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Friend of My Youth", in Friend of My Youth (1990)
“You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.”
Alice Munro (1931–2024) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Open Secrets (1994)
“Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.”
Alice Munro (1931–2024) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Too Much Happiness", in Too Much Happiness (2009)
“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.”
Alice Munro (1931–2024) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Too Much Happiness", in Too Much Happiness (2009)
“She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood: that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.”
Alice Munro (1931–2024) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Too Much Happiness", in Too Much Happiness (2009)
“,” is a true story about . Reading her life and dramatizing it, I could find all these things . . . some have changed, and some haven’t that much. Oh, I love that story – I love her. I love her femininity, her weaknesses as well as her strengths. The way she falls desperately in love with and she just can’t give him up. But what does he hold against her? Her achievements”
Alice Munro (1931–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, and you're just there, going along easy in the world.'”
Alice Munro (1931–2024) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dear Life (2012)
“Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.”
Alice Munro (1931–2024) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 (2014)
“I want my stories to move people, I don’t care if they are men or women or children. 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.”
Alice Munro (1931–2024) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nobel Lecture in absentia, by Alice Munro (2013)
“A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.”
Alice Munro (1931–2024) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Selected Stories, 1968-1994 (1996)
“This is what happens. You put it away for a little while, and now and again you look in the closet for something else and you remember, and you think, soon. Then it becomes something that is just there, in the closet, and other things get crowded in front of it and on top of it and finally you don't think about it at all. The thing that was your bright treasure. You don't think about it. A loss you could not contemplate at one time, and now it becomes something you can barely remember. This is what happens. 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.”
Alice Munro (1931–2024) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Runaway (2004)