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I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Background Class Complain Day Early Ethic Every Every Day Get Go Had Irish Job Learned Middle Middle Class Might Nobody Protestant Quite Real Real Job Really Same Show Special Still Think Treat Up Were Which Who Work Work Ethic You

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As a writer, you have to put yourself in service to the character, get behind their eyes by delineating the world where the character develops. You have to listen to the character and see him inside his certain world to know what conclusions he would draw.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Behind Certain Character Conclusions Develops Draw Eyes Get He Him His Inside Know Listen Put See Service Where World Would Writer You Yourself

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Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

~Alice Miller

Topics: Because Broken College Course Dare Democracy Ever Freedom Get Hearts Know Like Many Matter Never People Take You Your

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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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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

Topics: Final Get Gets Lost Memory Sometimes Start Story

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Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Anyway Because Deal Different Get Great Great Deal Interests Lives Lot Maybe Me Memory Men Older Other Our Our Lives Ourselves People Say Should Slightly Stories Tell Terms Think Too Well Women I Think

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Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother's illness. She had Parkinson's disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time... All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn't want to get trapped.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Because Complex Daughters Diagnosed Disease Fairly Generally Get Had Illness Long Long Time Made Me More Mother Mothers Much One Thing Ours Parkinson Relationships She Thing Time Trapped Very Want Which

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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

Topics: About Austen Charlotte Get Hero Jane Jane Austen Like Sex Supposed Too Unless Where Writing You

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I'm always trying. Between every book, I think, 'Well now, it's time to get down to the serious stuff.'

~Alice Munro

Topics: Always Between Book Down Every Get Now Serious Stuff Think Time Trying Well I Think

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People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.

~Alice Oswald

Topics: Different Get Just Me Meaning Novels Now People Poem Read Reading Slow Something Straight Through Totally Tune Used Way Which You

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