Alice Munro Quotes

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.

Alice Munro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: July 10, 1931

Topics

ChangeMeWritingThinkThoughtYou

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

Jerry Spinelli

BestWritingChanceCareStandYou

When people come up and tell me they're such a big fan, it's cool. But weird.

Jess Glynne

PeopleMeCoolWeirdTellBig

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

John Lydon

AcceptOldOrderGetRid

Radio was my friend after 'Jack & Diane' and 'Hurts So Good.'

John Mellencamp

GoodFriendRadioMy FriendHurts

The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain.

John Tavener

MusicRainMyselfGrandfatherThree

A gorilla with a cellphone riding a bicycle is bound to generate some clever captions.

Steve Breen

BicycleCleverRidingGorillaSome

Financial inclusion matters not only because it promotes growth, but because it helps ensure prosperity is widely shared. Access to financial services plays a critical role in lifting people out of poverty, in empowering women, and in helping governments deliver services to their people.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

GrowthWomenPeopleFinancialOut

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Simone Weil

LifeNeedPureOrderDoesItself

I'm drawn to singers who have something different to say vocally, and Adele would be in there.

Rob Halford

SaySomethingDifferentWouldWho

I don't think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, 'A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.'

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

JusticeMindMeThinkPresidentHer

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

August Strindberg

LoveNowMoreHatredSideHer

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Peter Lynch

BusinessIdiotGoRunGoingBecause

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