Alice Munro
Born: 07-09-1931
Alice Munro is a celebrated Canadian author renowned for her masterful short stories. Born in 1931 in Wingham, Ontario, she has been praised for her deep insight into human nature and her ability to capture the complexities of everyday life. Munro's work has earned her numerous accolades, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013, cementing her status as one of the greatest contemporary writers in the English language.
Book summaries for books written by Alice Munro
Quotes
The past is not just the past, it is a prism through which the subject filters her own changing self-image.
The important fact was that she was being kept, by somebody, safe from everything she had been afraid of.
It was a foolish thing to say, but words are the way people think, or some people anyway, and she wanted to understand herself.
To have a life, or to have a story?
Nothing is ever lost. Not permanently.
All lives are interesting, if you make them so.
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out and taken yours.
She learned to live with the pain. Or perhaps it was the pain that learned to live with her.
There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house.
There is a limit to what you can bear, and when the limit is reached, you must make a change.
The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.
In life, there are no such things as small betrayals.