350 Quotes by Alice Munro

I gave him a gentle uncomprehending look in return. I am a grown-up woman now; let him unbury his own catastrophes.

There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can’t know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you’ve reached it. I believe this.

To be a femme fatale you don’t have to be slinky and sensuous and disastrously beautiful, you just have to have the will to disturb.

The preference most of them had for seeing through their camera, rather than looking at the real thing, and so on.

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.

Now i no longer believe that people’s secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize.

Life would be grand if it weren’t for the people.

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 children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

Lies of that nature could be waiting around in the corners of a person’s mind, hanging like bats in the corners, waiting to take advantage of any kind of darkness.