350 Quotes by Alice Munro

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

Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.

There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I try to write a novel. I kind of want a moment that's explosive, and I want everything gathered into that.

I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not like a road to follow, it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

It’s just life. You can’t beat life.

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.

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.

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.