“I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.”Alice Munro
“What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".”Alice Munro book RunawaySource: Runaway
“We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do--we do it all the time.”Alice Munro Source: Dear Life: Stories
“What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given.”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 relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.”Alice Munro book Selected StoriesSelected Stories, 1968-1994 (1996)