Alice Munro Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DisciplineStoryThinkShortRules

I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, 'Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?' You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.

Matthew McConaughey

DisciplineBeginningStartThinking

I love working out at AKT. I will jump into one of my instructor's classes, hold a secret session with friends, or jam it out with my team, five days per week, 60-90 minutes each day.

Anna Kaiser

LoveDayTeamFriendsWeekJump

The free market is not a god; we have to do everything we can to make the market competitive.

Michael Gove

GodFreeEverythingCompetitiveMake

I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.'

Michael Arad

WorkMeSayingForwardProcessFind

By growing up at a center for people with special needs, I learned to always fight hard to achieve what I want. In this regard, I was incredibly lucky.

Stan Wawrinka

FightPeopleGrowing UpAchieveWant

'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.

Rufus Wainwright

LoveExperienceSongKindOpera

I've dated all kinds of guys and didn't know who I'd end up with. But I kind of assumed it would be someone more like my dad than not.

Miranda Lambert

EndSomeoneKnowKindMoreUp

I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.

Mindy McCready

MyselfViewLineFortunePunchMade

When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another.

Jason Mraz

BullyingSpaceChooseWrongWillUs

Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without measures like it, people in charge would not have, sadly, enough impetus to do, as cliched as it sounds, the right thing.

Jonathan Coleman

PeopleThoughtsActionImpossible

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

Jolene Blalock

I AmHappyMeProcessPlaceAccept

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Douglas William Jerrold

AlwaysFreshRecruitingLikeVictims

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