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

~Alice Munro

Topics: Endings Get Growing Happy Me Older Something Think I Think

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My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Age Also Because Brave Determined Fighting Figure Girl Her Life Little Little Girl Main Make Me Mother My Life Sad Seven She Still Suppose Unfair

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I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, which was 'The Little Mermaid,' and I don't know if you remember 'The Little Mermaid,' but it's dreadfully sad. The little mermaid falls in love with this prince, but she cannot marry him because she is a mermaid.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Because Cannot Christian Early Falls Got Him Interested Know Little Love Marry Me Mermaid Prince Read Reading Remember Sad She Story Very Which You

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I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people's lives present themselves.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Gaps Like Lives People Present Seems Stories Themselves Way

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One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, 'Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.' You have no idea of the competition.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Because Better Born Competition Doing Else Everyone Everyone Else High High School Idea Lucky No Idea Obviously Place Say School Than Then Well Where Write You I Can

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I don't think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I'm enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

~Alice Munro

Topics: About Been Courage Did Enjoying Feel Go Her How How Much Life Like Living Me Mother Much Must Needed Often Regret Relationship Rewards She Something Sometimes Terrible Think Way Were I Think

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I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls. I don't ever think about what kind of fiction I write or what I am writing about or what I am trying to write about. When I'm writing, what I do is I think about a story that I want to tell.

~Alice Munro

Topics: About Am Any Connecting Ever Everything Falls Fiction Just Kind Never Out Plan Start Story Tell Theme Think Trying Want Way Write Writing I Think I Am I Write

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I've lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Again Big House Live Lived Me Never Want

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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.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Astonishing Best Everything Feel Happens Long Me Reader Short Short Story Something Story Want Way

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In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Back Cover Forward Jump Lot My Own Own Sometimes Straightforward Tend Time Very Way Work

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: July 10th, 1931

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