Alice Munro
Alice Munro
Alice Ann Munrois a Canadian short story writer and Nobel Prize winner. 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."...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 July 1931
CountryCanada
makeup forgiving too-much
For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief.
beats
It’s just life. You can’t beat life.
forgiveness forgiving forgiven
We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.
moving mean writing
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.
happened
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.
notebook reading knowing
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.
memories people stories
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
moving writing people
I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.
peace kindness moments
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
kissing fearless conversation
The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.
letting-go grief minutes
Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.
stories failing importance
The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.
shelter stories sturdy
A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.
rooms done realization
There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.