Quotes by : Alice Munro

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people....

Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated....

I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never....

Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack,....

I was happy in the library. Walls of printed pages, evidence of so many created worlds--this was a comfort....

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought....

I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't....

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.....

Doing this was likewading and then throwing yourself into the lake for the first icy swim, in June. A....

Aunt Elspeth and Auntie Grace stood in their doorway, ceremoniously, to watch me go, and I felt as if....