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.
kissing fearless conversation
The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.
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.
everything-happens-for-a-reason long fiction
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.
travel long details
This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time -- you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them.
nests information magpies
My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
romance attention antics
I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.
laughter compassion hilarity
What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given.
sparks wanted
He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.
seductive romance despair
The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.
kindness blow understanding
Things have changed, ofcourse. There are counsellors at the ready. Kindness and understanding. Life is harder for some, we're told. Not their fault, even if the blows are purely imgainery. Felt just as keenly by the recipient, or the non recipient, as the case may be. But good use can be made of everything, if you are willing.
patterns sides pot
Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.
doe next lightning
One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.