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I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it's always a good deal different than you expect it.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Always Away Deal Demand Different Expect Good Good Deal Got Great Happening Just Life Mistake Moment More Most Often People Run Sometimes Than Then Things Think Want Who You I Think

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Charlotte Bronte was writing about sex. I supposed Jane Austen was, too. Where do you get a hero like Darcy unless you are writing about sex?

~Alice Munro

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Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn't intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Break Break Up Certainly Come Even Going Happens Ideas Intend Like Look Material Never Novel Novels Out Really Short Short Stories Something Start Still Stories Them Turns Up Want Well Why Write

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William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan, and Mary Lavin, another Irish writer. There were a lot of writers that I found in 'The New Yorker' in the Fifties who wrote about the same type of material I did - about emotions and places.

~Alice Munro

Topics: About American Another Did Emotions Favorite Fifties Found Irish Lot Mary Material New New Yorker North North American Places Same Think Type Used Were Who William Write Writer Writers Wrote Yorker I Think

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I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

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I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as 'the little wife.' You don't know what it was like then! I'd never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Ask Being Cheque Even Found Groceries Had Hard Hated Husband Know Like Little Married Money Never Regarded Then Twenties Wife Written You Young

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I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn't breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children's mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Anxiety Attacks Because Breathe Children Duties Finish Got Grade Had Housewife How Judged Maybe Minus Mother Partly People Performed Roles Sentence Situation Surrounded Those Time Unable Way Would Write

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When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I've got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Being Cannot Compassion Conquer Disabled Feel Got How Imagine Life Mother Now Older See Somehow Would You Young I Feel I Can

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I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that's the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don't understand.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Attracted Bit Connected Experience Feel Give Guess Intense Life Longer Moments Novel People Remake See Story Themselves Things Understand Want Way Will Write You Zero I See

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When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of 'Lives of Girls and Women,' I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

~Alice Munro

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: July 10th, 1931

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