“ To be a femme fatale you don't have to be slinky and sensuous and disastrously beautiful, you just have to have the will to disturb. Alice Munro
“ Also there were people going round in such clumsy ways, stopping and starting, and hordes of schoolchildren like the ones I used to keep in order. Why so many of them and so idiotic with their yelps a… Alice Munro
“ Not much to her credit to go through her life thinking, Well, good, now that's over, over. What was she looking forward to, what bonus was she hoping to get, when this, and this, and this, was over?F… Alice Munro
“ Captain Tervitt had been a real captain, for many years, on the lake boats. Now he had a job as a special constable. He stopped the cars to let the children cross the street in front of the school and… Alice Munro
“ He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into. Alice Munro
“ Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further every night on the deck. (Averill often told herself stories-- the activity seemed to her as unavoidable… Alice Munro
“ Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about. Alice Munro
“ Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east of Huron County. We passed a country store standing empty at a crossroads. It had old-f… Alice Munro
“ What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing. The bargain was already in force. Days and years and feelings much the same, except that the child… Alice Munro
“ People open shops in order to sell things, they hope to become busy so that they will have to enlarge the shop, then to sell more things, and grow rich, and eventually not have to come into the shop a… Alice Munro
“ Why is there always this twitchiness, when you introduce a man to a woman friend, about whether the man will be bored or put off? Alice Munro
“ Then he said the funny thing was the old man himself had left home when he was a kid, after a fight with his own father. The father lit into him for using the wheelbarrow.It was this way. They always… Alice Munro
“ Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final s Alice Munro
“ A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors… Alice Munro
“ همیشه یک روز صبح هست که وقتی بیدار می‌شوی٬ می‌فهمی انگار همه‌ی پرنده‌های شهرت کوچ کرده‌اند. Alice Munro
“ Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently. Alice Munro
“ گريس خودش نمي دانست چقدر سرد است، فكر مي كرد اشتياقي كه نشان مي دهد بايد منجر به لذت هايي شود كه، در خلوت و خيال، با آنها آشنا بود، و احساس مي كرد از آن به بعدش را موري بايد به عهده بگيرد. كه نمي گرفت… Alice Munro
