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Alice Munro Quotes

Canadian - Writer | July 10, 1931 -

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

Baby First Had Twenty-One

'The New Yorker' was really my first experience with serious editing. Previously, I'd more or less just had copyediting with a few suggestions - not much.

Experience Serious New Editing First

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was 'call attention to yourself,' or 'think you were smart.' My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson's disease.

Mother Yourself Smart Believe Think

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.

Women Great Men Memory People Me

While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren't taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.

Change Me Writing Think Thought You

I feel that I've done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

Me Feel Done Content I Feel Wanted

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.

Work People I Can More Mean Always

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.

Life People Brave Think Interesting

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don't think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

Good Job Writing Think Learn See

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

People Present Way Seems Like Lives

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

Life Writing My Life Personal Been

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You've got to go your own way, and that's what I did.

Mother Growing Up Think You Growing

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