Phrase by 'Alice Munro'

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In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.

Author: Alice Munro - Canadian Writer
  Life , Writing , My Life , Personal


That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

Author: Alice Munro - Canadian Writer
  Me , Something , Think , Happy


The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

Author: Alice Munro - Canadian Writer
  Know , Feel , Way , Personal


I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people's lives present themselves.

Author: Alice Munro - Canadian Writer
  People , Like , Way , Present


I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

Author: Alice Munro - Canadian Writer
  People , Time , Looking , Window


In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

Author: Alice Munro - Canadian Writer
  Sometimes , Time , Work , My Own


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.

Author: Alice Munro - Canadian Writer
  Sometimes , Start , Story , Memory


The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

Author: Alice Munro - Canadian Writer
  Life , You , Home , Children


In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

Author: Alice Munro - Canadian Writer
  Day , Think , Writing , Someone


'Royal Beatings' was my first story, and it was published in 1977. But I sent all my early stories to 'The New Yorker' in the 1950s, and then I stopped sending for a long time and sent only to magazines in Canada. 'The New Yorker' sent me nice notes, though - penciled, informal messages. They never signed them. They weren't terribly encouraging.

Author: Alice Munro - Canadian Writer
  Me , Time , Long , Long Time


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