“I want to tell stories about people who are surprising – even to themselves.”
“The complexity of things – the things within things.”
“For all her knowledge of conflict, she couldn’t recognize love until it entered her own life.”
“A story is not like a road to follow… it’s more like a house.”
“It’s a hard world to be in, and nothing comes easy, you know.”
“People are curious. A few people are. … They will keep looking and asking questions.”
“Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be treated as chapters of novels. They should be stories.”
Alice Munro Quotes :
“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
“The past is always changing, but we can’t stop it from changing.”
“People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable.”
“Even if you think the story isn’t going anywhere, it will find a way to make itself relevant.”
“People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.”
“We say of some things that they can’t be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do.”
“The complexity of things – the things within things – just seems to be endless.”
“It’s a hard world to be in.”
“Sometimes we do not really become adults until we suffer.”
“If we didn’t have mysteries, we’d have nothing to think about.”
“I want to tell stories about people.”
“There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things.”
“The complexity of things – the things within things – just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.”
“The world is going to keep changing.”
“The world is going to keep changing no matter how much we don’t want it to.”
“Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it’s going well as when it’s going badly.”
“We say of some things that they can’t be forgiven.”
“Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.”
“Stories are not chapters of novels.”
“We can never escape the past, and it shapes who we are.”
“Even if you think the story isn’t going anywhere, it will find a way.”
“You can’t understand everything at once.”
“We say of some things that they can’t be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do – we do it all the time.”
“For all her knowledge of conflict, she couldn’t recognize love.”
“We change how we look at life, but life doesn’t change.”
“The stories are about the things that people can’t always say out loud.”
“A story is not like a road to follow.”
“You can’t understand everything at once, we understand one thing, then another, and in some way they all fit together.”
“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
“People are always making a fuss over who you are and all that. They never stop to think about what you are.”
“People are always making a fuss over who you are.”
“Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.”
“Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories.”
“Love removes the world for you.”
“We can never escape the past.”