I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. — Alice Munro
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the ‘what happens,’ but the way everything happens. — Alice Munro
In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes — Alice Munro
In twenty years I’ve never had a day when I didn’t have to think about someone else’s needs. — Alice Munro
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. — Alice Munro
Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story. — Alice Munro
The complexity of things – the things within things – just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple. — Alice Munro
The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. — Alice Munro