Housework never really bothered me… what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life… when you’re a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn’t the fact that you do the laundry. Alice Munro Read Quote
I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‘Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.’ Alice Munro Read Quote
It’s not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, ‘Read,’ but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, ‘Don’t read, don’t think, just write,’ and the result could be a mountain of drivel. Alice Munro Read Quote
I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don’t obey the rules of progression for novels. I don’t think about a particular form: I think more about fiction, let’s say a chunk of fiction. Alice Munro Read Quote
I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me. Alice Munro Read Quote
Lives’ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do. Alice Munro Read Quote
I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content. Alice Munro Read Quote
I can have people around a lot more because I’m not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel. My non-novel, I mean. Alice Munro Read Quote
In those early days, the important thing was the happy ending. I did not tolerate unhappy endings – for my heroines, anyway. And later on, I began to read things like ‘Wuthering Heights,’ and very, very unhappy endings would take place, so I changed my ideas completely and went in for the tragic, which I enjoyed. Alice Munro Read Quote
I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level. Alice Munro Read Quote
